Stumpy The Mutt on Nostr: Orbital Sciences (now gobbled up by Northrop Grumman) had the winged midsection of ...

Orbital Sciences (now gobbled up by Northrop Grumman) had the winged midsection of one of their Pegasus boosters wash up on an island somewhere. Same sort of befuddlement happened about who owned it. Eventually NASA claimed it and shipped it to the Dulles facility, where it was cleaned up, bolted to some other non functional Pegasus prototype structures and donated to the Smithsonian's Udvar Hazy extension of the Air and Space Museum.