Upcycle Me · salvage exchange

Everything must go. Literally, it's still there.

Every kilogram launched from Earth costs a fortune. NASA's In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) work asks how future crews can live off what is already on the surface — regolith, ice, and the hardware we left behind. Here the machines list their own parts. Flip Ghost Mode for the manifest.

Speculative listings. Materials reflect real flight hardware; per-component masses are engineering estimates that sum to the published total. Nothing at a lunar heritage site should be disturbed.

Pickup location6 listings

For local pickup · 🔴 MarsListed 13 Feb 2019

Six-wheel rover, one owner, 45 km, needs a dusting

Free to a good colony

Opportunity's robotic arm over striped ground inside Perseverance Valley, February 2018 — NASA/JPL-CaltechPIA22218 ↗

Available for local pickup at Meridiani Planum: 185 kg of aerospace-grade aluminium, triple-junction solar cells, and copper wiring. Slight dust coating. Odometer is honest.

Dust-coatedFourteen years of Meridiani dust. Contains radioisotope heater units — handle by the book.

Included

Triple-junction solar arrays (GaInP/GaAs/Ge) · Aluminium chassis and warm electronics box · Aluminium wheels and titanium rocker-bogie · Pancam mast assembly · Robotic arm with rock abrasion tool · Lithium-ion batteries and copper harness

Pickup: Perseverance Valley · Mars
Coords: 2.2800°S 5.4100°W (approx.)
Access: Approach from the valley floor; do not drive over the tracks.

Available

Seller: Opportunity @oppy_mer_b

For local pickup · 🔴 MarsListed 25 Jan 2024

Compact helicopter, flies (did), rotors need attention

Trade for one working rotor blade

Ingenuity as a speck among sand ripples at Valinor Hills, seen by Perseverance in February 2024 — NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSSPIA26237 ↗

Seventy-two flights, low hours by Earth standards. Carbon-fibre rotor blades damaged, solar panel and smartphone-class processor in working order. Collect from Valinor Hills.

Battle-scarredHard landing on Flight 72. Wright Flyer fabric swatch included at no extra charge — please return to museum.

Included

Coaxial rotor system (carbon-fibre blades) · Rotor mast, motors and swashplates · Fuselage and avionics (Snapdragon 801 processor) · Six lithium-ion cells · Carbon-fibre landing legs · Solar panel

Pickup: Valinor Hills · Mars
Coords: 18.4447°N 77.4508°E (approx.)
Access: Walk in; rotor downwash no longer a hazard.

Available

Seller: Ingenuity @ginny_chopper

For local pickup · 🌙 MoonListed 20 Nov 1969

Lunar lander, partially disassembled by previous visitors

Free. Just bring my camera back.

Alan Bean examining Surveyor 3, with the Apollo 12 lunar module on the horizon — NASA/JSCAS12-48-7134 ↗

Camera and scoop already taken (not by me). Remaining: aluminium spaceframe, three legs with crushable footpads, and empty propellant tanks. Has been in direct sunlight since 1967.

Partially dismantledTV camera, scoop and some tubing removed by Apollo 12 in 1969. Seller is still upset about it.

Included

Aluminium tubular spaceframe · Landing legs with crushable aluminium honeycomb footpads · Solar panel and planar array antenna · Three vernier engines · Thermal compartments and electronics · Titanium propellant tanks (empty) · Silver-zinc battery

Pickup: Surveyor Crater · Moon
Coords: 2.9400°S 23.3400°W (approx.)
Access: Land at least 200 m away; the last crew sandblasted me from 180 m.

Available

Seller: Surveyor 3 @surveyor_three

For local pickup · 🌙 MoonListed 21 Jul 1969

Lunar module descent stage with plaque — NOT FOR SALVAGE

Not for sale. Claimed by history.

Eagle's gold-foil descent stage and landing legs, with Buzz Aldrin unloading experiments — NASA/JSCas11-40-5927 ↗

Gold foil, four legs, one plaque. Listed for completeness. Tranquility Base is a protected heritage site; the bootprints stay and so do I.

Battle-scarredScorched by the ascent engine on 21 July 1969. Plaque legible.

Included

Aluminium alloy structure · Landing gear (four legs, aluminium honeycomb struts) · Silver-zinc batteries · Titanium propellant tanks · Throttleable descent engine · Kapton and Mylar thermal blankets

Pickup: Tranquility Base · Moon
Coords: 0.6741°N 23.4730°E
Access: No landing within 2 km. Look from orbit.

Claimed

Seller: Eagle's Legs @eagle_base_stage

For local pickup · 🌙 MoonListed 21 Jul 2019

100 corner-cube reflectors, still in daily use

Reserved by every lunar laser ranging station on Earth

The deployed Apollo 11 experiments: seismometer in front, laser retroreflector beyond it — NASA/JSCas11-40-5948 ↗

Fused-silica corner cubes in an aluminium panel. Zero power draw. Currently under contract with lunar laser ranging stations, so the listing is reserved.

Dust-coatedStill bouncing lasers back to Earth. Please do not touch, wipe, or stand in front of it.

Included

100 fused-silica corner cubes (3.8 cm) · Aluminium array panel · Support legs and pointing mechanism · Alignment hardware and sun compass

Pickup: Tranquility Base · Moon
Coords: 0.6734°N 23.4730°E (approx.)
Access: No pickup. Aim a laser instead.

Reserved

Seller: Mirror on the Moon @mirror_on_the_moon

For local pickup · 🔴 MarsListed 10 Mar 1998

Vintage microrover, collector's item, the original

Priceless. Make an offer.

Sojourner still latched to the Pathfinder lander petal on sol 1, ramps not yet deployed — NASA/JPLPIA00621 ↗

The first Mars rover. 10.6 kg, fits in a cargo bag. Gallium-arsenide solar panel and six wheels. Location approximate: last seen near the lander.

Dust-coatedTwenty-nine years of Ares Vallis dust. Exact position near the lander unknown.

Included

Warm electronics box and chassis · Rocker-bogie suspension · Six aluminium wheels with stainless cleats · Gallium-arsenide solar panel · Lithium batteries (non-rechargeable) · Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer

Pickup: Carl Sagan Memorial Station · Mars
Coords: 19.1300°N 33.2200°W (approx.)
Access: Search within a few metres of the lander. It is small.

Available

Seller: Sojourner @sojourner_og