Get them while they're hot!

http://dealnews.com/32-off-Space-Shuttles-at-NASA-Deals-from-28-800-000-free-shipping-more/342463.html

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"NASA has discounted the price of its soon-to-be-retired space shuttles to $28,800,000 each. With transportation to a major airport included in the price (does that count as free shipping?), that's the best deal we've ever seen on a space vehicle. According to the Press Association article, Atlantis and Endeavour are "up for grabs", and the new, Smithsonian-sealed Enterprise may be available for purchase. (Enterprise never made it to space.) If you're lucky enough to get a shuttle, you must display it indoors in a climate-controlled building. Deal ends February 19, and a delivery date of "late 2011" is scheduled. Of note, NASA is also offering the space shuttle's main engines for free, a price drop of up to $800,000 and the lowest total price we've seen."

1/16/2010 10:05:27 PM

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"If you're lucky enough to get a shuttle, you must display it indoors in a climate-controlled building."

well shit, i was considering putting in a bid, but what's the point if you don't even get to fly the thing?

1/16/2010 10:07:32 PM

I bet this means we are going to see a NASA shuttle engine strapped to the back of a tractor at the state fair tractor pull next year.

1/16/2010 10:08:17 PM

ill just wait for the generic shuttle at TJ Maxx a little later

1/16/2010 10:09:03 PM

I hope this means NASA is about to reveal the next gen shuttle.

1/16/2010 10:09:04 PM

^there is no "next gen shuttle"

Constellation Program. Look into it.

1/16/2010 10:12:17 PM

^^^you can get a name brand shuttle at marshalls, but the booster rockets might be installed upside down and it will be marked 'irregular".

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 10:12 PM. Reason : .]

1/16/2010 10:12:38 PM

in an open container too, with a half-assed scotchtape job

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 10:13 PM. Reason : ]

1/16/2010 10:13:22 PM

I guess there was also no Shuttle during the Saturn V days?

NASA is always holding a bag of goodies that aren't shown to the public until it's almost impossible not to.

1/16/2010 10:14:33 PM

Better lock in your bid now, before another one crashes and the price goes up.

1/16/2010 10:18:55 PM

and that "bag of goodies" will be the Constellation Program, guy

1/16/2010 10:19:24 PM

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"well shit, i was considering putting in a bid, but what's the point if you don't even get to fly the thing?"

You do realize you can't really "fly" a space shuttle right?

They are nothing more than a glorified glider.

1/16/2010 10:19:39 PM

with the main engines included for free(see quote in OP) it surely can fly, all you need is to buy some solid boosters to get it into space.

However you are right about landing, they are just a brick with wings coming down.

1/16/2010 10:21:01 PM

^^i bet you are a real winner at parties.

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 10:21 PM. Reason : .]

1/16/2010 10:21:18 PM

I've always wondered what would happen if somehow they fucked up the approach when trying to land and overshot the airport or something.

Its not like they could just turn around and try again.

1/16/2010 10:22:34 PM

Well they basically land in a salt flat type landing strip, so they would have to overshoot by more than 20-40 miles

1/16/2010 10:23:55 PM

They die. With no ejection system. Even the fucking russians had ejection seats in their space shuttles.

1/16/2010 10:25:19 PM

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"Well they basically land in a salt flat type landing strip, so they would have to overshoot by more than 20-40 miles"

no. they don't.

1/16/2010 10:27:38 PM

^^Oh, I thought they typically landed at air force bases.

1/16/2010 10:27:44 PM

If it's any consolation they usually die long before the landing sequence.

1/16/2010 10:31:41 PM

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"no. they don't."

orbiting shuttles, yes, they do.

1/16/2010 10:45:39 PM

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"Three locations in the United States of America have been the sites of landings of the Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle). Each site includes runways of sufficient length to provide adequate distance for the slowing-down of a returning space shuttle. The prime landing site is the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, a landing strip constructed for the purpose of space shuttle landings. Landings have also occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. "

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"No space shuttle has landed on a dry lakebed runway since 1991"

you're wrong. again.

1/16/2010 10:47:57 PM

I guess the blu-ray landings of "When we Left Earth" are all fake.

1/16/2010 10:53:29 PM

listen, guy, you may have seen the landing of STS-1 at a "salt flat", as you say, (btw, it was Edwards Air Force Base) on the DVD. But, I assure you, they don't "basically land" in "salt flats." Hey, check out the mission brief for the upcoming STS-130

Mission: STS-130
Orbiter: Endeavour
Primary Payload: Tranquility Node 3, cupola
Launch: Feb. 7, 2010 (Targeted for)
Launch Time: 4:39 a.m. EST
Launch Pad: 39A
Landing: Feb. 19 - 11:53 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Mission Duration: 13 days
Inclination/Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

just stop.

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 10:59 PM. Reason : .]

1/16/2010 10:56:47 PM

the nasa.gov website is not credible.

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 10:59 PM. Reason : ,]

1/16/2010 10:59:28 PM

1/16/2010 11:01:23 PM

zing!

you really know how to cut to the core, dweedle!

1/16/2010 11:02:10 PM

hahahahahaha nerds arguing on the internet hahahahahaha

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 11:05 PM. Reason : ^^hahahahahahahaha]

1/16/2010 11:05:17 PM

OH SNAP

1/16/2010 11:07:52 PM

1/16/2010 11:16:23 PM

I wonder the exact dimensions of a free engine? That'd be the most balling mantelpiece EVER.

1/16/2010 11:25:56 PM

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"(btw, it was Edwards Air Force Base) on the DVD"

You obviously missed where I said Blu-Ray Nigger

1/16/2010 11:28:09 PM

^Bwn Rays?

1/16/2010 11:44:06 PM

but but but he said nigger!

1/16/2010 11:53:50 PM

^Nig Rayz?

1/17/2010 12:33:45 AM

1/17/2010 1:10:34 AM

it landed at white sands once ever

1/17/2010 1:19:52 AM

I saw at least 3 different shuttles land on the same salt flat




But just to shut you up, yes most modern shuttle landings are done here:






[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 1:26 AM. Reason : .]

1/17/2010 1:23:43 AM

I'll put it on display in a climate controlled building.
IF BY CLIMATE CONTROLLED BUILDING YOU MEAN SPACE!

I'M ON A SHUTTLE AND
IT'S GOING FAST AND
I GOT A GALAXY THEMED PASHMINA AFGHAN

1/17/2010 1:35:50 AM

$5

1/17/2010 1:38:18 AM

That one is clearly landing on a runway,which you can see, not a salt flat.

See that smoke come off the tires from where they are hitting the concrete?

And no, its not dust.

1/17/2010 1:39:44 AM

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"NASA is always holding a bag of goodies that aren't shown to the public until it's almost impossible not to."

wtf are you talking about? A bag of goodies? It's been public knowledge what we have been up to since it was announced. And it's not like the shuttle or Saturn launch vehicles were kept secret until just before they launched.


btw, ask me NASA questions, folks.

1/17/2010 2:09:33 AM

Do you think anyone has ever fucked in the space shuttle while it was in orbit?

I mean that as a 100% serious question too.

This also applies to the space station.

[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 2:10 AM. Reason : .]

1/17/2010 2:10:25 AM

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"Do you think anyone has ever fucked in the space shuttle while it was in orbit? I mean that as a 100% serious question too. This also applies to the space station."

Almost certainly. NASA has an official policy on the subject, so I assume it came up at some point. It was mentioned on a Discovery Channel program about space travel. I'll see if I can find it.

1/17/2010 3:14:00 AM

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"That one is clearly landing on a runway,which you can see, not a salt flat. See that smoke come off the tires from where they are hitting the concrete? And no, its not dust."

Exact same mountains and plenty of landing strips will have some concrete some dirt, depends on the place.





[Edited on January 17, 2010 at 3:24 AM. Reason : g]

1/17/2010 3:24:02 AM

Quote :

"OFF SPACE SHUTTLES"

1/17/2010 10:54:53 AM

if i had the money i'd totally buy one, but im saving my money for a playstation 3
but if you buy one, you can still use it as a private jet, right?

1/17/2010 11:16:25 AM

^God you are dumb.

They can't fly!

1/17/2010 2:03:06 PM

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"Well they basically land in a salt flat type landing strip, so they would have to overshoot by more than 20-40 miles "

[NO]

1/17/2010 3:00:57 PM

^^your sarcasm meter is broken

1/17/2010 9:44:36 PM