Trilobyter on Nostr: Retreiving it is another matter, NASA doesn’t use the same docking mechanism so ...

Retreiving it is another matter, NASA doesn’t use the same docking mechanism so we’d have to build (or borrow an old one if any exist), and adapt it to Orion or some other spacecraft (a robotic one would be safer). But you’d still have no way to get it down to Earth, even if they had gotten it back to low earth orbit the Shuttle didn’t have a payload bay that could accommodate it.