I was!, -and Remain Absolutely Shocked!, -to have heard that one or more of the Later Apollo Mission's Lunar Modules, (Apollos 18 thru 20 or 21),-which were Budget Cut Off by a 70s "Earth First" Congress, -*LIES BURIED SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK'S FRESH KILLS or other LANDFILL!*!!!!, -when Grumman Bethpage, -evidently had Nothing Else to do with it!!!! Come On!, -Thats like placing our Original Constitution and Declaration of Independence there! Right in with all the Gungy Newspapers and Street Litter and everything!!! There are of course Some Things in Life!, -that you Just DON'T go Trashing Off into a Landfill! This should be "So Elementary Life 101"!, -that it should Self Evidently Go Without Saying! I mean, -Do People have to be Reminded or Told!? Does someone have to Draw them a Picture of it!? Just Throwing a Perfectly Good, Spandiferous, Moonworthy Apollo Lunar Module into an Everyday Average Landfill!!!!

At least One, -from those Shortsightedly Cancelled later Missions, -has been Saved! In that it now Proudly Resides in our National Air and Space Museum!

But to just Chuck even One, or Any, -into your everyday John Q Landfill!, -Why!, -There just Obviously is NO Reason, Rationale, Cause, Call, Justification, or Excuse!!!!!

Ditto the "Just Chuck Off LOSS"!, -of All Apollo Plans and Tooling Capability! We've Long Ago just LOST the Capability!, -to Again Re-Make an Apollo / Saturn 5, -should we ever Want or have Reason to do so! Just to Bow to Short Sighted, Earth First, Budget Cuts! And nth Degree Dollar Stretching and Corner Cutting, with whatever's Preciously Leftover! A BiCentennial Apollo Mission *returning* to Tranquility Base in 76!, -Sure would have been Nice! Rovers and such, -perhaps even originally Planned "Lunar Flying Units", -could have Ranged Out Far Further than Neil and Buzz ever did, -in a Great Scientific and Exploratory Followup!(Of course Not Disturbing 11's Original Footprints and All! Someday Such from All Apollo, Ranger, etc Missions, -will have to be "Enforceingly Preserved"!). A BiCentennial Mission would have made for a Nice Excuse, -for at least One More Apollo Mission!, -to say a least. To NOT just Throw the Plans and Plant Capability for such!, -this perhaps in another Landfill somewhere!, -would have of course been a Crucial Pre-Requisite for such! Dah!

Heck I'm even one who Wishes that the Original Rockwell and Grumman Apollo Contracts!, -with NASA and our Govt, -be Honorably Enshrined in the National Air and Space Museum! They're as Splendiferous, in their Own Way, -as Anything Else!, -that was *Behind* our First Getting to the Moon! Oh though!, -Where did they too since go!?, -into a Shredder or yet Another Landfill!?...

Things like Those and Apollo LMs just being Chucked Off into your Average, Everyday Landfill! Sheeesh and Gleeezh!...