johnny worley, scrapyard owner) "i think it's a needle in a haystack. i think it's a needle in the ocean." it belongs to johnny worley, a scrapyard owner, who found it sitting in an old garage in a rural north alabama town. he was told it had been purchased at a nasa auction. johnny worley, scrapyard owner) "i knew what it was, but anybody else would have scrapped it." that explains how it wound up here. but perhaps a more relevant question is "why did nasa sell it?" ( otha vaughan, retired nasa engineer) "if it's flight hardware, you want to take care of it. if it's test hardware, you don't necessarily want to keep it. there's a bunch of relays here probably from the battery system." it's weathered and worn and missing a few parts. "what do you think it measures? 72 inches." but the specs match up. and it's johnny worley's hope that a buyer will match up when he auctions it off later this month. johnny worley, scrapyard owner) "i would really love to see someone take this and put it back the way it was." ironically, nasa has reached out to worley sayin