Comments on: NASA wants your junk

By: MichaelL

MichaelL — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:48:06 +0000

Bouch, I loved Salvage 1! Matlock in Space!

By: Yiming Hu

Yiming Hu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:54:07 +0000

Woooo~ that is really funny.
Well, can’t that be counted as a tort?

By: Mike Mullen

Mike Mullen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:27:33 +0000

Well I know some people think Ares-1 is a piece of junk…

By: Charles Evo

Charles Evo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:05:06 +0000

Bake sale

By: Douglas Killings

Douglas Killings — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:39 +0000

Harry Broderick — the man who really won the Ansari X-Prize.

God, I can’t believe I even remember that show…

By: coolstar

coolstar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:40:52 +0000

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.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:09:08 +0000

They don’t really pick up your trash. They just film actors pretending to pick it up in a soundstage.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:40:48 +0000

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….

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:05 +0000

So is that an upside-down A, or a V with a crossbar?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:39 +0000

This is what happens when the contract goes to the lowest bidder.

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:34:10 +0000

If you want irony, their dumpsters are scattered all over JPL…

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:50 +0000

I think NASA is going door to door collecting old 8086 CPU’s for the Space Shuttle.

By: Jamie Mueller

Jamie Mueller — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:43:28 +0000

Yeah I’m old too–I didn’t need to click the link to know who Harry Broderick was!

By: Bouch

Bouch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:42 +0000

Man, I must be old if I remember “Salvage 1″… Wasn’t the capsule made out of an old cement truck?

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:02 +0000

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…

By: JRPB

JRPB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:39:34 +0000

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!