Jettison Salvage Was Here

Jettison Salvage Was Here
17 July 2009
EventHorizon1984

The topic of preserving the Apollo moon landing sites is brought up in the article "Is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Flag Still Standing?".

Beth O'Leary who "created the NASA-funded project to make the Apollo 11 Landing site on the moon as a National Historic Landmark" notes:

• 'the possibility exists to locate humankind's lunar leftovers precisely, assess their condition and most importantly decide then what and how to preserve this record for future generations'

There are six Apollo landing sites.

• Apollo 11    Mare Tranquilitatis  (Sea of Tranquility)
• Apollo 12    Oceanus Procellarum  (Ocean of Storms)
• Apollo 14    Fra Mauro  (edge Imbrium Basin)
• Apollo 15    Hadley Rille  (edge Imbrium Basin)
• Apollo 16    Descartes Mountains
• Apollo 17    Taurus-Littrow  (edge Mare Serenitatis, i.e. Sea of Serenity)

The current protection for these landing sites are the quarter of a million miles distance to reach them, and the cost.

But anyone who's lived a good part of the 20th Century might tell you, and science fiction fans will attest to, is that sometimes science fiction becomes fact.

 

Vulture of the Salvage-1 lunar mission at Serenity Base *.  Salvage (1979)

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"I want to build a spaceship, go to the moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back and sell it."
Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith), Jettison Scrap & Salvage Company, Salvage (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mR-gz9EFO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDa25M-de70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSsqsbv0FWg

* Possibly referring to the Apollo 17 landing site, or COL Steve Austin's** Apollo 19 landing site.

** "Salvage", "Salvage 1", and "The Six Million Dollar Man" are Universal Pictures properties.

We use some Salvage references from:

Salvage 1

Salvage-1: The Best Space Movie You've Probably Never Heard Of...

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Update 2013.09.11

We goofed.  Although a newscaster at the beginning of the first episode "Dark Island" describes his location as the "Jettison Salvage yard", and Harry Broderick in the pilot answer's the phone as "Jettison Salvage", that's not the full name of fictional company.  Harry Broderick's company is not the "Jettison Salvage", but "Jettison Scrap & Salvage Company."  Apologies to all fans of the show.

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