NASA Space Shuttles For Sale

I’d love to reply anon- will one be at ledgends.;)

Unfortunately most museums cant afford them excluding the cost as they also have to pay for them to be delivered on the back of a NASA 747 and they must be kept inside in a temperature controlled enviroment and also NASA have a long list of criterior to meet to make the list to have one.

curlyboy

Thats cheap! I’ll take four. …. damn.

oooohhh…. can’t wait to see the flurry of activity on eBay when other stuff gets into the open market…. remember Concorde? :diablo:

oooohhh…. can’t wait to see the flurry of activity on eBay when other stuff gets into the open market…. remember Concorde? :diablo:

See who is the first to put up unused urine tubes on e bay or any of the other space things which are totally useless on a gravity based planet!!

curlyboy

…any of the other space things which are totally useless on a gravity based planet!!

Not like all those Spitfire control columns that people collect, right? :rolleyes:

Not like all those Spitfire control columns that people collect, right? :rolleyes:

Ahh but they have a fire button at least!!

curlyboy

Shuttles in the autumn when they retire them from service.

Another giant leap backwards for mankind:( First the moon, then Concorde, now this. Is anything in place to replace them? I doubt it – no money I suspect. Ahh well it was nice while it lasted.

Martin

Another giant leap backwards for mankind:( First the moon, then Concorde, now this. Is anything in place to replace them? I doubt it – no money I suspect. Ahh well it was nice while it lasted.

Martin

The Shuttle is obosolete and dangerous.

I would be very surprised if the worlds major Super Power didn’t have a replacement ‘vehicle’ already operational. I would be equally surprised if it employs rockets either.

How long did it take Stealth to get into the public arena?

Another giant leap backwards for mankind:( First the moon, then Concorde, now this. Is anything in place to replace them? I doubt it – no money I suspect. Ahh well it was nice while it lasted.

Martin

Martin

There is a replacement called Orion, however, your right about the money they have been short funded by $550,000,000. it won’t fly till 2015.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11282-budget-woes-delay-shuttle-replacement-to-2015.html

Baz

Why are NASA selling the Shuttles?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to actively give them to several good museums so they can be preserved for history?
17 million, not many museums can afford those and besides they are pretty much just scrap once sold in space terms. Not like someone is going to actually use them.

Why are NASA selling the Shuttles?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to actively give them to several good museums so they can be preserved for history?
17 million, not many museums can afford those and besides they are pretty much just scrap once sold in space terms. Not like someone is going to actually use them.

This is NASA’s chance to recoup some money back from the shuttle program and the money spent, but the museums that could afford one are mostly goverment run and the most likely to have one being the Smithsonian has one already (even though it never flew in space) and will be getting Discovery to replace it, they could never be used by anyone else as NASA has the only launch vehicles.

But it does make you wonder why there is a 5 year lag from their retirement to the supposed replacement coming on stream, which essentially means the Russians will have the only experianced manned space programme and will be the only link for the International space station in that time with the exception of private companies and their new technologies which are at a similar stage.

curlyboy

Also, you will have to be careful not to get caught out with someone who has been making forgeries.

They’re quite easy to spot, these have the cheaper B&Q bathroom tiles stuck to the outside.

Also, you will have to be careful not to get caught out with someone who has been making forgeries.

They’re quite easy to spot, these have the cheaper B&Q bathroom tiles stuck to the outside.

In that case they wouldn’t be still stuck on would they!:diablo:

(Cheap shot and withdrawn as I used to work for them!:o)

I’d be surprised if one didn’t end up with Paul Allen’s place in Seattle.

I wonder if the US could gift one to us in retrun for our support in recent years – give it to the Science Museum and they could keep it in the Hanger at Wroughton!!

Seriously something like that might kick start their development plans…

Unfortunately most museums cant afford them excluding the cost as they also have to pay for them to be delivered on the back of a NASA 747 and they must be kept inside in a temperature controlled enviroment and also NASA have a long list of criterior to meet to make the list to have one.

curlyboy

Does the 747 have to land at the destination or can they drop the shuttle off ??!!!!

Does the 747 have to land at the destination or can they drop the shuttle off ??!!!!

I was reading that the 747 lands at the nearest capable field and the shuttle is then moved by road all at your cost including the crane to lift the shuttle once it is there.

But when it is moved by road you cant cut the wings off as the way it is built does not allow you to apparently.

curlyboy

I agree the shuttle was dangerous to fly, it was also a white elephant. It was originally designed to service a space station in the early 70s which in turn was to be used as a stepping stone to Mars.

Then the world got bored with the moon missions and Nixon cancelled the station and the Mars missions but left the shuttle in place for Low earth orbit missions, it went round and round just like John Glenn did back in 1962, it has been doing that for 29 years, not really extending space exploration is it.

I have been priviliged to meet Apollo astronauts and some when asked the question would they have liked to fly the shuttle said NO WAY!!!
Basically there is no way to escape a launch abort until the SRB’S seperate and then they have to get rid of the external tank before they can even think of a return to terra firma.

I for one am pleased the shuttle years are finished and the heavylift Orion program is in it’s early stages I am even more pleased Nasa is scheduled to return to the moon by 2020, but that all depends on congress.

Regards

Nic

The Shuttle is obosolete and dangerous.

I would be very surprised if the worlds major Super Power didn’t have a replacement ‘vehicle’ already operational. I would be equally surprised if it employs rockets either.

How long did it take Stealth to get into the public arena?

Obsolete and Dangerous? rubbish dear boy!
they are still very much at the pinnacle of technological development, they have just reached the end of theyre designed life span, not too dissimilar to a conventional aircraft running out of fatigue life, and as for dangerous i think that two ships lost in nearly 30 years of operations in the most extreme conditions a machine can endure is pretty damn impressive.

“the world’s major super power”? didnt realise they were buying theyre replacement from China :eek:;):D

I agree the shuttle was dangerous to fly, it was also a white elephant. It was originally designed to service a space station in the early 70s which in turn was to be used as a stepping stone to Mars.

Then the world got bored with the moon missions and Nixon cancelled the station and the Mars missions but left the shuttle in place for Low earth orbit missions, it went round and round just like John Glenn did back in 1962, it has been doing that for 29 years, not really extending space exploration is it.

Regards

Nic

Funny I could have sworn that I’ve seen a naffing great space station up there somewhere? and Hubble and later hubbles repair? And if I still had a right testicle I would gladly give it up for a ride on the last mission………………..