Comments on: House passes bill that attempts to protect Apollo Moon sites https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098732 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:43:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098732 Jeff, thanks. Brings back good memories of my childhood.

]]> By: Jeff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098698 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:32:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098698 Max – That show you spoke of was “Salvage 1” that starred Andy Griffith. I remember it well.

From the Wiki listing:
Plot
The pilot centers on Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) who owns the Jettison Scrap and Salvage Co. and is a specialist in reclaiming trash and junk to sell as scrap. His dream is to recover equipment left on the Moon during Apollo Program missions. In the show’s opening title narration, Harry states:

“I wanna build a spaceship, go to the Moon, salvage all the junk that’s up there, bring it back and sell it.”

The Vulture
Harry builds a spaceship dubbed Vulture, made completely from reclaimed salvage and powered by a chemical called monohydrazine. The main body of Vulture is composed of a Texaco gasoline semi-trailer tank truck with a cement mixer as the capsule. This is augmented with three shorter rocket boosters placed 120 degrees around the main tank.

Here is one guy’s remembrance. Lots of good history and backstory.
https://youtu.be/XdJu-dA5VZ4
(6:29)

]]> By: Ian C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098627 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:28:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098627 Col Beausabre,

It’s still a difference whether rogue actors aim to attack Albanian or American property.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098591 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:15:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098591 ” While it’s not legally binding for others, violating the sites might provoke diplomatic and other reactions.”

Did that stop ISIS or the Taliban”

]]> By: Ian C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098579 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:18:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098579 We had to deal with that during the GLXP. NASA coordinates procedures for approaching the protected sites (for landers and rovers), but they’re not too burdensome. And the heritage sites are so few and rather small that they won’t get in the way of other missions or settlers, unless one explicitly wants to visit them.

Whether other countries (or companies registered in them) will violate the wishes of the US will be seen. While it’s not legally binding for others, violating the sites might provoke diplomatic and other reactions.

]]> By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-bill-that-attempts-to-protect-apollo-moon-sites/#comment-1098565 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:55:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=71840#comment-1098565 With privately commissiond rockets available, the one-of-a-kind artifacts will be worth far more than Luna rocks if you’re a billionaire private collector.
Expect the landing sites to be the objects of a “Gold rush” race to retrieve them first for the highest bidding. Especially now their value just went up.

I’m not saying this to be cruel or prophetic, One only needs to look at any ancient sites that have been excavated on earth to know that human nature is self fulfilling. (Do you have an Egyptian artifact? Do you want to buy one? Perhaps one from Pompeii?

Gates would want to “erase” the site to say the lunar landing never happened, Zuckerberg would target the site with graffiti, Bezos would put it on eBay. (China will make replicas so that everyone can have a piece of authenticated fake artifacts)
Take lots of photographs, there’s no way to secure a site like this. Hand slapping doesn’t work.

Wayne might know, wasn’t there a TV show in the 70s that was predicated on a junk man building a rocket to retrieve space junk from the moon for resale?

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