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Topic: Saturn H-1 rocket engine in Missouri junkyard
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-22-2019 11:30 PM
   
What appears to be a Rocketdyne H-1 rocket engine has been spotted in a scrapyard in Rolla, Missouri. Sure, it's in rough shape and some bits are missing, but this appears to be a genuine Saturn rocket engine, the same kind used to send Apollo spacecraft into Earth orbit for testing, and also the kind that was used to launch crews to Skylab, and send up the American half of the famous 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission...As for how this engine ended up there, another commenter found that there was once a factory that used to make these not too far away in Neosho, Missouri, which gives a plausible reason how this engine could have settled in that particular scrapyard.  |
Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 977
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-23-2019 09:35 AM
Fascinating find! Thanks for posting this. |
denali414
Member Posts: 593
From: Raleigh, NC
Registered: Aug 2017
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posted 02-23-2019 10:04 AM
Road trip!  |
Liembo
Member Posts: 583
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 02-23-2019 10:58 AM
This story is spreading like wildfire on social media. The price, if there is one, is going up by the hour. |
MOL
Member Posts: 98
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 02-24-2019 07:30 PM
This is not at all a new discovery, as this thread from two years ago shows. |
hidaleeho
Member Posts: 57
From: Denver, Colorado, USA
Registered: Dec 2011
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posted 02-25-2019 09:36 AM
What are the chances this could be confiscated by the OIG? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-25-2019 09:54 AM
More needs to be known about the engine's history in order to gauge what the OIG's interest might be.The OIG would get involved if there was reason to believe it the engine was still federal property or if someone reported it to them to investigate. The OIG is required to look into every report. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-25-2019 10:19 AM
If excessed from Rocketdyne's plant very low probability OIG has jurisdiction. |
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