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Used Spacecraft Lot Needed On Moon

If you could salvage all of the material that human beings have left on the moon, you could open a fairly substantial used spacecraft lot.

If all of these craft could be collected in one junkyard/sales lot, the sales brochure would look like this:

Update 16-May-2007: Corrections have been made to the list based on attentive reader comments. End update notice.

Science fiction writers have already explored the idea of a used spacecraft lot on the Moon. In his 1941 novel Methuselah's Children, Robert Heinlein describes it this way:

...Despite efforts to make the Moon colony ecologically self-sufficient, Luna City still imported vastly more tonnage than she exported. On Earth this would have resulted in "empties coming back"; in space transport it was sometimes cheaper to let empties accumulate, especially on Luna where an empty freighter was worth more as metal than it had cost originally as a ship back Earthside.

They suited up and left the dome by North Tunnel, then strolled along the grounded ships in the long, easy strides of low gravity...
(Read more about Lunar Used Spacecraft Lot)

(Lunar Rovers (3); low mileage, excellent shape, make offer)

If you are interested in space junk, you will want to collect these stories:

• Making a Living from Space Junk
• Space Junkyard in Northern Hollywood
• NanoTerminator Prevents Annoying Space Debris Build-Up

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