Very cool.
awesome.
What, was it on somebody's hubcap?
After going in person to the moon several times, what do you do for a sequel? Mars?
I say, send a dog or cat to Mars before you try to send a man.
Apollo 16 had nothing to do with the shuttle.
I mean, it’s great that he had a great Discovery from the Atlantis Ocean,and his study of NASA is an admirable Endeavor of an Enterprise-ing young man, for which a Challenger will not be found. Hail Columbia!
Are these reporters really so brain dead as not knowing that Apollo 16 was not a space shuttle?
We've become a nation of utter morons.
Finders keepers. Law of the sea. Salvage rights and all that.
I would have kept it.
Let the kid have his prize.
I can’t figure out what part on the first stage would specifically be marked as Apollo 16. Doesn’t sound right. If anything it would be marked as Saturn V if it really is part of the first stage. I’m wondering if maybe it is part of the escape tower shroud.
Really cool find and really nice of NASA to do. Congrats to them.
NASA ping
Very cool and not cool that NASA has been outsourced by Obama. About 10,000 jobs in Florida gone. It was sad to see the last Shuttle launch the other day.
The first 6 paragraphs are about the article writer. He uses “I” 8 times in the first 4 sentences.
This could be the brain behind the TOTUS!
Is it just me or does it sound odd that these “pieces of METAL” just sort of float around the ocean until they beach themselves?
Any beachcombers out there? Do you often find large chunks of METAL?
In November of 1986, I found this very thin piece of metal (three, four millimeters, maybe) about the size of a piece of notebook paper sticking up out of the sand while at the beach in Cocoa Beach, FL.
The metal had several burn holes in it about the size of a lit cigarette end and had several “tears” in the metal, giving it this twisted look.
The most surprising thing about it given it’s size and thickness? Can’t be bent. Looks like it could be easily twisted in one’s hands but, nope, won’t give an inch.
Congress gave its final approval to the Shuttle program quite literally while Young & Duke were exploring the Cayley Plains north of the Descartes formation, in the lunar highlands. Young, the ninth of our species to set foot on the Moon, would become the Shuttle's first pilot, with Bob Crippen in the starboard seat, nine years later.
The program was planned for 1976 and finally got into orbit in 1981. It was built around the dimensions of the Hubble, and the HST was supposed to be up long before it's nearsighted long-delayed launch in 1990.
Pardon me if I am less than optimistic about NASA's future manned spaceflight program, right now. (We may still end up going to sleep "by the light of a communist Moon.")