Recycling Center Needed On the Moon

Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott photographed the Lunar Rover at the end of the last EVA. CREDIT: NASA

If all of these craft could be collected in one used spacecraft lot, the sales brochure would look like this.

Science fiction writers have already explored the idea of a used spacecraft lot on the Moon. In his 1941 novel Methuselah's Children, writer Robert Heinlein describes it this way:

...Despite efforts to make the Moon colony ecologically self-sufficient, Luna City still imported vastly more tonnage than she exported. On Earth this would have resulted in "empties coming back"; in space transport it was sometimes cheaper to let empties accumulate, especially on Luna where an empty freighter was worth more as metal than it had cost originally as a ship back Earthside.

They suited up and left the dome by North Tunnel, then strolled along the grounded ships in the long, easy strides of low gravity...
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(Lunar Rovers (3); low mileage, excellent shape, make offer)

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(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets fiction.)