Scott Lowther wrote:

"However, just before we left KSC, a guy from the NASA Export Control
Office (which is run by some contractor, maybe Analex?) came by our
office on an "inspection" and told us we had to take down all the
Saturn V drawings we had around ... now, these were just old NAA
public relation drawings, plus a few commercially-purchased posters
showing the Saturn V internals in very rough detail. He said they
were all covered by ITAR and therefore had to be locked up! We kept
telling him some were purchased at the Visitor Center Gift Shop, but
he did not care. He ended up coming around with an armed security cop
until we took them down and shredded them."


WTF??? Saturn V is under ITAR control? Has anyone told David Weeks?

You just can't make this **** up, can you?
This reminds me of them taking the Fat Man and Little Boy off display at
the National Atomic Museum because some terrorist might learn how to
make a nuclear weapon by studying them. "So that's what we've been doing
wrong! The fins go at the _back_ end!"
Somebody might want to point out to them that the Saturn V, and all
drawings of the Saturn V, were financed by taxpayers as part of a
civilian space project by a civilian agency, and therefore are public
property every bit as much as photos taken on the Moon's surface by the
astronauts are.
They are probably concerned that Iran or China will back-engineer a
Saturn V from the drawings and get to the Moon before we return.
This administration is completely off its rocker when it comes to
security and classifying things. Most of this seems to emanate from
Cheney's office, who I am becoming increasingly convinced is clinically
mentally unbalanced.

Pat