It would seem I was wrong about the nonexistence of the junkyard in the Farmer Astronaut movie...

North Hollywood junkyard: one giant heap for mankind

By John Johnson Jr., Times Staff Writer
March 25, 2007

Mounds of titanium and steel glinted in the afternoon sun, valves and pipes protruding in
all directions like half-formed metal organisms.

In one corner of the warehouse was a twin of the Apollo command module engine that
brought Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong back from the surface of the moon nearly 40
years ago. Nearby was the second-stage motor for a Saturn V, the most powerful rocket
ever used in the U.S. space program.

Jonathan Goff, a 26-year-old rocket engineer, climbed atop a mound of titanium spheres
once used to store highly explosive liquid oxygen rocket fuel and scanned the area for
used rocket parts. "This is definitely a cool place," he said.

For almost five decades, Norton Sales Inc. in North Hollywood has been collecting the nuts,
bolts and heat exchangers from the rockets that helped American astronauts shrug off the
steely embrace of gravity.

This is where the bits and pieces of America's space program came to die.

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