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Forum: Hardware & Flown Items
Topic: Norton Sales' rocket parts surplus store

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 03-25-2007 11:59 AM Los Angeles Times: [URL=http://www.denverpost.com/aerospace/ci_5586961]North Hollywood junkyard: one giant heap for mankind[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Mounds of titanium and steel glinted in the afternoon sun, valves and pipes protruding in all directions like half-formed metal organisms. In one corner of the warehouse was a twin of the Apollo command module engine that brought Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong back from the surface of the moon nearly 40 years ago. Nearby was the second-stage motor for a Saturn V, the most powerful rocket ever used in the U.S. space program. Jonathan Goff, a 26-year-old rocket engineer, climbed atop a mound of titanium spheres once used to store highly explosive liquid oxygen rocket fuel and scanned the area for used rocket parts. "This is definitely a cool place," he said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> From Norton Sales' [URL=http://www.nortonsalesinc.com/]website[/URL]: <BLOCKQUOTE>Norton Sales has been a leading supplier of Aerospace and Industrial supplies since 1962. Our customers tend to be small shops and individuals who are looking for very specific, and often hard to find, parts for rocketry, stunt equipment, movie props and old school hydraulics.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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