Grumman Aerospace sent North American Rockwell an invoice for towing the Apollo 13 Command Module back with the Lunar Module.

In response North American reminded Grumman that North American Rockwell had not received any payment for ferrying the Lunar Modules on previous trips to the moon.

Edit The picture seems to be blurry on lemmy here is a link of a higher resolution picture Link

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    472·
    10 months ago

    Charges for keeping this invoice confidential: $100,000.00

    Considering we’re seeing this invoice right now, they didn’t keep it confidential did they?

    • spizzat2@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Automatic declassification is the declassification of information based upon the occurrence of a specific date or event as determined by the original classification authority; or the expiration of a maximum time frame for the duration of classification established under the Order (25 years).

      It’s possible that the source of the document is the government itself, and the tow company maintained their end of the agreement.

      • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        the tow company

        I love that you call one of the largest defense contractors on the planet “the tow company”.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Well of course they didn’t. Who wants to pay $100k to keep it confidential? Leak it and you save yourself six figures.