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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
After I looked into it a little more, I discovered that MLP-2 was used for Apollo 9 and 14, the launch of Skylab, every shuttle first launch, except Columbia and was used for the last flight of the doomed Challenger, amongst about 50 other launches.
This particular part of MLP-2 was added after Apollo (it was the support for the Shuttle so was the last earthly thing Challenger touched) but was built from pieces of the launch tower so the metal was there for the Apollo missions.
Given all that history, I ended up ordering one (with a 15% discount).
I'm such a nerd.
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Good for you. The bolded item is interesting. They actually scavenged pieces of the Apollo tower to fab the shuttle mechanism?
If it was from one of the release clamps - I'd probably bite, too.