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Earlier this fall, we brought you the curious story of a long-lost lunar rover prototype tested by NASA in the 1960s. At the time, we decided to keep some of the details off the record, but for this week's podcast, we delve deep into the rover's history and its journey from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to a scrap yard in Alabama.This episode of Radio Motherboard unfolds as it moves along, so in the interest of not spoiling it, we'll just get right to it. Thanks for listening!You can subscribe to Radio Motherboard on iTunes and on Stitcher.
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-Show notes (contains spoilers):Cold open: Worth checking out this video, it's very cool!1:30 — Here's all our FOIA reporting1:40 — Here's our FBI Glomar2:50 — Here's our series of stories about the alleged Carnegie Mellon / FBI Tor attack4:40 — A little more info about the KSM vacuum6:20 — Here's a story about NASA's pornography investigations7:30 — The mystery begins!8:30 — The whole FOIA is available here11:50 — Robert Pearlman's Collect Space is a wonderful website and you should check it out15:23 — A watch that went to space just sold for $1.6 million, a new record for a piece of astronaut memorabilia17:00 — Here's the classified ad!20:00 — We get some clarity on the mystery23:00 — Motherboard tracks down an old friend of the rover24:00 — Skeet Vaughan has a very interesting website with some cool NASA history32:00 — Here's the auction blog post