My buddy Gene Kozicki took an in depth photo survey of the model when it was being authenticated at profiles in History. The Aries 1-B was auctioned off in 2017 to the Academy of Arts and Sciences for a quarter of a million dollars. It was smashed up by kids a few days later.” - Trevor Parsons as relayed to Rod Munday at .uk I desperately wanted to take it home, but I only had a motor bike & a room 8 feet by 10 so it was not really workable. I took pictures of it, its surface had been covered with bits of old plastic construction kits to make it look more technical when filmed. By the time I got there the pod had been taken, the space wheel damaged & taken out its wooden case. Of course they may not have been the only ones but I believe they were genuine (the film had been made about 20 miles away at Boreham Wood the old MGM studios). They contained 2 of the models used in 2001, the space wheel & one of the pods.

One afternoon in 1974 a truck turned up after the dump was closed & left some crates in the entrance way.

Our studio, we were studying graphic art, faced the entrance to the local corporation dump. “I was at college in Stevenage (about 15 miles away from St Albans in the early 1970’s). Rare look at an abandoned Space Station V prop from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY that was supposed to be destroyed. This one is a real shocker! Look where the space station ended up.

2001 a space odyssey space station