re: Apollo 12 relic (TPS)
Interesting, Buster. Maybe others will react too.
While going to their site I saw this article.
Last year, I also saw an article in a french magazine, about it.
Both TPS and Ciel et Espace use the word "Debris" for the SIVB Apollo 12 third stage. (An original picture from Apollo 12, BTW).
In Paris, last year in november, I was discussing with a friend who writes the Heaven's guide every year. I told him: why didn't they use the word "Relic" or "Treasure" or "Witness of a forgotten era"? No, instead, this "Magificient-Man-Made-Monument-Meant-for the Moon" was called a.....debris.
And at the Planetary Society, too.
It's just too bad.
Raoul
