On 9/20/2011 8:38 AM, Jochem Huhmann wrote:

You'd need to fly something up to it, no doubt.

Besides, even *finding* it looks fairly impossible to me.

You could probably find it given enough time, money, and effort; but
what would be the point of doing that?
Want to recover something historic from space, go get Vanguard 2, it's
the oldest thing still up there, and we know where it is.
It's also small enough to be pretty easy to retrieve.

Pat