[ARC5] Surplus Disposal

[J. Forster]

I had two space payloads launched on surplus, remanufactured Atlas SLVs
that came out of Turkey, as I remember.

-John

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> I was told that when they shut down radar stations in the Arctic they
> would take the equipment to be disposed of, stack it on the ice on a
> nearby lake and just wait for the spring thaw...
>
> Who would want a bunch of R-390's, anyway?  They are no doubt still there
> if anyone wants to go diving.
>
> But the all time great one was in the early 1970's when they took at least
> 25 Atlas ICBMs, and in order to save the horrible storage costs of $3000 a
> year, ran over them with bulldozers at Norton AFB.
>
> We converted the Atlas missiles that escaped the bulldozer into space
> boosters and launched them for $15M each for 4 decades thereafter.  But a
> USAF Colonel decided that with the wonderful new development we had coming
> the old boosters would not be needed.
>
> The new development was called the Space Shuttle.....
>
> Wayne
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