Friday, May 9, 2014

The perfect gift for that nerdy hard-to-shop-for person

The joystick from the Apollo 15 lunar module.

Bidding opens at $10,000.

5 comments:

  1. Since they didn't bring the lunar module back, he must have disconnected that thing and brought it back with him. I wonder how common that was, bringing pieces back, and how it was accounted for in the mass calculations.

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  2. I'm surprised Scott wasn't reprimanded for vandalizing government property.

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  3. Probably NASA SOP to prevent aliens from boosting it at some later date. Like pulling the distributor cap when you park in a bad neighborhood.

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  4. JayNola just won all the internets for today.

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  5. Only if it comes with the 'rest' of the trainer... :-)

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