Its a pretty noble mission. I wonder what the salvage rights are. Which is to say if NASA abandons a spacecraft, and you bring it back into service, are you now the owner of it and its data? Would the original science team be able to tell you what to do with it? Even if you didn't want to?

That said, I was really disappointed that the dish antennas were dismantled at Onizuka AFB [1] (aka the 'blue cube') they were originally part of a group of space craft communication satellites and could even track things in LEO (fun to watch a giant dish following a satellite)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onizuka_Air_Force_Station