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SpaceCraft for sale, fully loaded, air conditioning, one careful owner. It鈥檚 a bargain: NASA has cut the price of a space shuttle to $28.8 million.
The vehicles will go on sale after construction finishes on the International Space Station, scheduled for later this year. When NASA originally announced it would be selling the shuttles, it priced them at $42 million each. Now the agency has slashed the price after recalculating how much it would cost to prepare a shuttle for public display and to transport it from its base at the Kennedy space centre in Florida to a US airport. One of the shuttles, Discovery, is already promised to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. But Atlantis and Endeavour are still up for grabs.
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If an entire shuttle is beyond your budget, consider a main engine instead. NASA had hoped to charge up to $800,000 apiece for these but lack of interest has forced it to offer them for free: be warned, they鈥檙e heavy on fuel.