October 27, 2015 08:00 pm
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Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal
Jason Koebler writes: An Alabama man allowed an Apollo-era lunar rover prototype to rot in his backyard before ultimately selling it to a junkyard for scrap metal last year, according to documents acquired from NASA as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. NASA spent much of 2014 attempting to acquire the priceless artifact for display in a museum, but it was ultimately destroyed before the agency could recover it.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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