Atlantis lands following the STS-129 mission in November, 2009. Credit: NASA
After the space shuttle program ends, NASA hopes to sell the three slightly used remaining orbiters to educational institutions, science museums or other organizations who could publicly display them. Over a year ago, the space agency put out a request for those interested to submit proposals for owning a shuttle and said the cost would be about $42 million, which would include "safeing" an orbiter, preparing it for display and ferrying it to a U.S. destination airport. Today, however?perhaps in response to the current economic downturn — NASA has slashed the price to just $28.8 million.
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