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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Cape Canaveral sign post, Merritt Island.The entry sign to the City of Capa Canaveral, once known as Cape Kennedy, the home to NASA and America's manned-space race. The sign declaring Capa Canaveral on Merritt Island, Florida. Here for 40 years the US space programme has been sending men, chimps and missiles into space. Merritt Island is also home to the space junk auction, alot of the NASA workforce and also the Kennedy Space Center. This is known as the Space Coast.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Nasa Jumble Sale.An unidentified rocket and its engine assembly lies in the wasteland of Charles Bell's yard. An eccentric rocket scientist, he was part of the NASA space programme since the 1950's collected treasures and redundent equipment from the earliest days of space travel.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Shuttle model moulds lie in the dirt. They were probably used for displays at NASA PR events.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Oscilloscopes bought for scrap.One of Charles Bell's items for auction, Oscilloscopes and other electronics were bought for scrap. Assorted oscilloscopes and electronic gadgetry that Charles Bell amassed over the years. Items like these were partly responsible for many innovative technology that NASA wanted developing for the space programme including fibre optics that Charles Bell invented. Rather than preserving it for technology museums where it truly belonged, it has been bought as scrap, never to be seen again and other electronics were bought for scrap.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction. John Glenn's capsule model. This full size mock up of his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule alongside miscellaneous space collectables. This piece alone fetched $35,000 at the previous auction and went to California for restoration and exhibition.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Apollo astronaut walkway structure..Charles Bell's collection of cumbersome rockets, gantries, fuel tanks and browsers lay overgrown in what had become a snake-infested wilderness. One of the Apollo gantries or walkways that the astronauts would have ambled along with their oxygen packs towards the waiting capsule. They now sit rusting awaiting scrap dealers.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Chemical suits. NASA chemical suits hang on their rack at the space junk auction. Hanging Scape Suits before the auction. Confusingly, these are not space suits as worn by astronauts but chemical protection suits for those working with chemicals and liquid oxygen on the giant gantries that stood alongside the rockets. They were sold for $60 each and now appear on e-bay.com.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.The collapsed wafer-thin skin of a 90ft long Atlas rocket which space scientist Charles Bell bought from NASA for £10. It probably cost approximately £10m to build..The side of a 90ft long Atlas rocket that Charles Bell bought for $10 from NASA. It had been standing at Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral until a storm blew a tree into it. It is estimated these rockets cost around $10m to build at the time though they were bought at auction for $10,000.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Atlas rocket.A 90ft US Air Force Atlas rocket lies on its transporter, its wafer-thin skin still intact after years of storage. Rocket scientist Charles Bell, paid $10 for it though it is estimated that it cost $10m to build. It had been standing at Patrick Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral until a storm blew a tree into it. It is estimated these rockets cost around $10m to build at the time though they were bought at auction for $10,000.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Gantries and tracking equipment in the wasteland..Rocket gantries and tracking equipment left to rust in the back yard of NASA scientist Charles Bell. Assorted rocket paraphenalia. At the very back of the auction site, a whole jungle of Apollo and Shuttle junk was buried in the undergrowth having been forgotten there for decades. Here we see gantries and tracking (communications) structures.
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  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Rusted generator frontage..When David Manor, Auctioneer and friend of Charles Bell, came to catologue the 'collection', he found that much of the material was of little interest: it was either too big to move or had rotted away unprotected in the open air.
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  • NASA technology.Boy admires an Apollo moon suit.A boy visitor looks at an Apollo moon suit at the Kennedy Space Center museum dedicated to NASA's achievements. It is over 30 years since man last set foot on the moon but, for many Americans, the romance of space travel is more powerful than ever.
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