Stark
12-21-2008, 12:57 PM
NASA is planning to raise money by selling off its space shuttles when they stop flying in 2010.
The U.S. space agency is in much need of money in order to produce the next generation Ares rockets, which will attempt to return astronauts to the moon.
And they may raise some funds by selling off their space shuttles, at a cost of at least $42 million.
The advertised price is just the starting figure for any one of the orbiters Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour, which between them have flown 86 missions into space since 1984.
Included is the minimum $6 million cost of stripping a shuttle of toxic and other hazardous materials, preparing it for travel and flying it to an airport of the buyer's choosing.
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/watercooler/story/Space-shuttles-for-sale/RApXc7vXN062JSAywDhxpg.cspx
The U.S. space agency is in much need of money in order to produce the next generation Ares rockets, which will attempt to return astronauts to the moon.
And they may raise some funds by selling off their space shuttles, at a cost of at least $42 million.
The advertised price is just the starting figure for any one of the orbiters Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour, which between them have flown 86 missions into space since 1984.
Included is the minimum $6 million cost of stripping a shuttle of toxic and other hazardous materials, preparing it for travel and flying it to an airport of the buyer's choosing.
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/watercooler/story/Space-shuttles-for-sale/RApXc7vXN062JSAywDhxpg.cspx