A Meteorite Older Than Earth? Control Panels from Soviet Space Shuttle? - Steve's Space Museum II

Continuing the tour of Steve Jurvetson's collection, starting out with a panel ejected from SpaceX's first flight of crew dragon with humans on board. This covered the parachute during launch and reentry, and it was discarded during descent so the parachutes could deploy. It also has an interesting story regarding the legality of recovering and salvaging rocket parts, which technically remain the property of the builder even if they as lost far outside territorial waters.

And that's just the start, there are lots of panels from the US and Soviet space programs,

High quality images and discussion of the importance of many of these can be found on Steve's excellent Flickr account
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/


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