🚀 As momentum appears to build about replacing the deteriorating Saturn 1B rocket with a replica at the north Alabama welcome center on Interstate 65, evidence is surfacing that restoring the rocket may be a feasible alternative. Here's what's up:
to replace the rocket with a replica. And the commission that operates the rocket center last year received almost $1 million from the state legislature to help fund “rocket removal.”
Daniel Ponsford, a Georgia-based conservator who has worked on projects at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington and across the country, said he believed restoration costs could be as low as $4 million. Ponsford is working with a Huntsville group seeking to raise money to cover restoration costs.
That’s counter, of course, to NASA’s view that the rocket may not even be able to withstand rehabilitation. The rocket has been at the welcome center since 1979 and has withered since then under the elements, NASA said. As for the exterior of the rocket, it “shows many areas of corrosion, rusting, and deterioration caused by long term exposure to the elements. Restoration will heavily consist of corrosion control and metal repairs,” the report said.Ponsford said none of those issues presented concern.
Ponsford also said the bird and bat excrement mentioned in the report would be “surface corrosion” and could be eliminated after pressure washing using lasers.on Lookout Mountain , we laser-cleaned that,” he said. “And that’s feet in the air. When we’re doing an aircraft and we clean out bird nesting material or guano, it’s truly superficial. There’s not enough acidic material there to really deteriorate the aluminum.
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