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Retired NASA Space Shuttles Are Up for Grabs
FoxNews.com ^
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Posted on 12/17/2008 4:31:16 PM PST by Joiseydude
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's soon-to-be-retired space shuttles are up for grabs.
The space agency said Wednesday it's looking for ideas on where and how best to display its space shuttles once they stop flying in a few years. It's put out a call to schools, science museums and "other appropriate organizations" that might be interested in showcasing one of the three remaining shuttles.
Beware: NASA estimates it will cost about $42 million to get each shuttle ready and get it where it needs to go, and the final tab could end up much more.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nasa; shuttle; spaceshuttles
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To: Joiseydude
One should stay at KSC, one should go to Houston (JSC) and one for the museum tour.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:34:24 PM PST
by
AntiKev
("Within the strangest people, truth can find the strangest home." - Great Big Sea - Company of Fools)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:34:47 PM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: Joiseydude
I would love to see some redneck win the lottery, buy it, and put it in his back yard as a play house for the kids. :->
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:37:11 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: Joiseydude
A big Vegas casino should be one—or all of them!—and make it thrill ride!
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:37:23 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Joiseydude
I want one. I know, I will start a ponzi scheme, I mean investment group, get lots of people suckered in, I mean involved, then ask the govt to bail me out, I mean purchase my toxic assets. Its a brave new world out there.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:37:32 PM PST
by
SFR
To: BradyLS
Edits: ...buy one... ...make it a thrill ride!...
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:38:15 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Joiseydude
As long as they have the big chrome rims and the skinny tires, I’m all aboard with that.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:38:42 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Joiseydude
"Beware: NASA estimates it will cost about $42 million to get each shuttle ready and get it where it needs to go, and the final tab could end up much more."We can't afford it. Unfortunately, that reality doesn't matter as much as it once did.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:39:12 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Joiseydude
NASA estimates it will cost about $42 million And that's just the bribes and kickbacks.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:39:30 PM PST
by
iowamark
To: AntiKev
One should stay at KSC, one should go to Houston (JSC) and one for the museum tour. OR...one to KFC, one to IHOP, and put a porch on the other one and give it to Cracker Barrel.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:40:00 PM PST
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
To: Joiseydude
To: Joiseydude
Obviously, we need one here at Johnson Space Center/Space Center Houston. Ellington Field is only a few miles away - a cinch to transport.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:40:25 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
To: Joiseydude
sell them for a dollar. Have a drawing and let the new owners worry about moving them. Around here I know we could move it for less.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:42:53 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(Lord, please bless America)
To: Joiseydude
If I win the mega lottery, I am buying one.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:44:31 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: AntiKev
and one to the space museum in Alabama or the Smithsonian
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:46:06 PM PST
by
omega4179
( Those who can't write, write the news)
To: smokingfrog
How about one in the valley?
we have flatbeds or we could float it
in.
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:46:11 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(Lord, please bless America)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:49:53 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
To: JRios1968
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:50:42 PM PST
by
Joiseydude
(Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
To: CindyDawg
What valley would that be?
If it's the California Cnetral Valley, we got us a cool museum going near Merced now...
: )
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posted on
12/17/2008 4:50:51 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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