Satellites For Sale
I love this picture. In 1984, Space Shuttle mission STS51A, in addition to deploying two communications satellites, also picked up two of them from failed orbits and brought them back to Earth. Astronaut Dale Gardner’s little ad may well have worked. Westar-6, one of the satellites recovered, was refurbished and sold to China, where it was re-launched as Asiasat-1.
