{"id":902,"date":"2008-01-19T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2008-01-19T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:26:44","slug":"want-to-buy-the-apollo-13-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Want to buy the Apollo 13 Engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"220\" src=\"\/media\/NortonSalesInventory.jpg\"  height=\"137\" style=\"width: 220px; height: 137px\" \/>The next time I&#8217;m in the Los Angeles area, I&#8217;m going to visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nortonsalesinc.com\/\">Norton Sales<\/a>.\u00a0 Here, for a quarter-million dollars, you can buy part of the Saturn 5 and, if you&#8217;re willing to spend over a million dollars, you can buy the actual Apollo 13 Engine.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onorbit.com\/node\/52\">OnOrbit post<\/a> about this store to see a video of it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe 50 years from now, you&#8217;ll be able to visit this store and buy some used parts from a real Space Elevator.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Yes, this was part of the original cable, now replaced due to meteorite damage.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only $1,000 per linear foot.\u00a0 And over here, we have one of the gripper wheel sets from one of the original Climbers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a steal at only $25,000.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture from the Norton Sales website)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time I&#8217;m in the Los Angeles area, I&#8217;m going to visit Norton Sales.\u00a0 Here, for a quarter-million dollars, you can buy part of the Saturn 5 and, if you&#8217;re willing to spend over a million dollars, you can buy the actual Apollo 13 Engine. Visit the OnOrbit post about this store to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}