Aug 142019
NASA Giving Away Apollo-Era Saturn Rocket to Anyone who Wants It
It’s free to a good home. Just pay the modest $250,000 shipping fee.
I have an obvious choice: SpaceX. The Saturn S-1 stage was, as we all know, originally intended to be recovered after flight via parachutes with an ocean splashdown; this option was eliminated as a mass and cost savings measure, as were plans to add Rogallo wings or parafoils for a horizontal runway landing. I suggest that SpaceX get this stage, refurb it, fix it up and fly it, using one of the several proposed recovery methods.
Why? Because it would be cool, that’s why.