A man discovered a NASA moon rover rotting away in his junkyard

One person's trash is another peron's treasure, right?

However, a lunar rover — which was reportedly found in Alabama junkyard — seems like a treasure all around.

A lunar rover prototype, similar the one above being driven by famed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, was sold to a junkyard in the state last year, according to a report in Motherboard. The Mobile Test Article (MTA) unit was built by Brown Engineering for the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; while it was not the winning design (that honor went to Boeing), it played a minor role in the engineering of the final rover, Apollo 17, used on the moon in 1972. Read more...