Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Have I Got a Deal For YOU! Message-ID: <504@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 18:16:41 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.504 Posted: Mon Feb 3 18:16:41 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 01:37:20 EST References: <512@ssc-vax.UUCP> <518@anasazi.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 29 Keywords: Volksrocket In article <518@anasazi.UUCP> john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) writes: > How about space junk? A friend took me to several surplus stores >in southern California, and we found a number of goodies including: > A Gemini reaction control system valve assembly (cost me $70), >console lights from an Apollo capsule, an actuator from a space shuttle, >a surplus airforce satellite (unused, of course!). > He has collected, over the years from these sources, a Viking >orbiter (really - I've seen the thing), and Apollo capsule and almost >all of the avionics, and a number of miscellaneous rocket engines, >guidance systems, radios, etc. This stuff, however, didn't all come >cheap. > I don't know the names of the stores, but if you look around >Van Nuys or Pasadena, you might find one of them. Figuring out what >is what in the stores, however, is quite an art. >>for neat (and cheap) esoteric aviation hardware? >-- >John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO) I realize we may be off the beaten path here, but whatever happened to that guy who was constructing the VolksRocket X-1? He picked up almost all of his toys from space junkyards... -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu CF522@UMDD.BITNET "Vern Vern Vern Vern Vern Vern Vern, you've done it now, buddy..." -Ernest P. Worrell