What Does The CSS Alabama have in common with NASA?

     An online article about preserving the NASA materials left behind on the Moon by the Apollo missions cites the Confederate Ship's wreckage as evidence that the U.S. retains ownership of the lunar left-behinds:

 The wreck of the Alabama was deemed U.S. property because the United States succeeded to all Confederate property after the Civil War ended and the United States had not expressly abandoned the wreck.

    Read the entire article in The Space Review here.
    Also, we haven't updated the CSS Alabama website in a long time, but for those of you interested in that aspect of the story, you can visit it here. Bob Corley and I started the site in 2008 when we were trying to produce a documentary about the ship.