While driving in Los Angeles recently, I was surprised to see this out my passenger window:
Wow. I know NASA’s budget is small, but this seems a bit unnecessary. I wonder if Harry Broderick was driving?
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am
There’s another NASA-Junk branch office in Tabasco, Mexico (my hometown). Too bad I don’t have pictures; they even had a lil’ rocket with stars around it in their logo!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Good catch!
They have a slick website:
http://www.nasaservices.com/homepage.html
But they don’t tell us what NASA stands for. I wonder…
November 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Man, I must be old if I remember “Salvage 1″… Wasn’t the capsule made out of an old cement truck?
November 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Yeah I’m old too–I didn’t need to click the link to know who Harry Broderick was!
November 20th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I think NASA is going door to door collecting old 8086 CPU’s for the Space Shuttle.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
If you want irony, their dumpsters are scattered all over JPL…
November 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
This is what happens when the contract goes to the lowest bidder.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
So is that an upside-down A, or a V with a crossbar?
November 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
From looking at all the aluminum and stainless steel workstands and fixtures in the Space Station Processing Facility at KSC, and all the test cabling, I think there will be a huge availability of these items and materials about a year from now. Somebody could make a bundle buying excessed usable items….
November 20th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
They don’t really pick up your trash. They just film actors pretending to pick it up in a soundstage.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Well, the first CCDs were used in astronomy in about 1981 or perhaps a bit earlier. The first affordable ccds became available around 1990 give or take a year or two. so the BA must be older than we think.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Harry Broderick — the man who really won the Ansari X-Prize.
God, I can’t believe I even remember that show…
November 21st, 2009 at 1:05 am
Bake sale
November 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
Well I know some people think Ares-1 is a piece of junk…
November 21st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Woooo~ that is really funny.
Well, can’t that be counted as a tort?
November 21st, 2009 at 10:48 am
Bouch, I loved Salvage 1! Matlock in Space!