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From: marcus@illusion.uucp (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Intelsat salvage mission
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.171155.11758@illusion.uucp>
Date: 30 Aug 90 17:11:55 GMT
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In article <1990Aug16.201103.7395@zoo.toronto.edu> kcarroll@zoo.toronto.edu (Kieran A. Carroll) writes:
>I seem to remember that some >components< of Apollo command modules were
>re-used; that is, after a CM returned from a mission, various electronics
>boxes and other components were removed, re-qualified, and integrated
>with a CM that was waiting to fly. A fairly minor example of pre-Shuttle
>reusability, but an interesting one. 

I know that one of the moon rock collection boxes was re-used.  It's the only
thing that has been to the moon and back *twice*.  I forget which two missions
it was used on, but it did strike me as rather unique.  It is on display at
the Cosmosphere in Kansas (along with alot of other neat stuff).

marcus hall