Of course it would cost you $42 million, but NASA is offering up the members of its space shuttle fleet. Naturally, NASA is offering the shuttles primarily to museums, so don't go reaching for your checkbook just yet. The price includes $6 million for cleaning, shipping and handling. And you thought your shipping charges were outrageous...
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that about 20 institutions are interested in acquiring one of the two shuttles up for sale (the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has been guaranteed Space Shuttle Discovery). Of course, $42 million is no small investment, so it will be interesting to see how many institutions are able to raise the funds necessary.
The shuttles are scheduled to be retired at the end of this year and will be replace by the constellation program, specifically the Orion Crew Module which relies on the new Ares Rocket.
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Does anyone out there have $42 million dollars I can borrow?
will you take a check?