• Twitter
  • Facebook
News-Sentinel.com Your Town. Your Voice.
Opening Arguments

Uncle Sam's yard sale

Dang, of course a great bargain would show up while I'm still paying off the Christmas-gift purchases:

Space shuttle for sale, fully loaded, air conditioning, one careful owner. It's the ultimate bargain. NASA has cut the price of a space shuttle to $28.8 million. The vehicles will go on sale after they finish constructing the International Space Station, scheduled to be later this year. The New York Times reports that NASA had hoped to get $42 million for each vehicle but lowered the cost in the hope of sealing a deal. It has three to sell, although one of these, Discovery, is already promised to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Maybe they'll have trouble unloading them and knock off another million or two by the time I get my next raise. Wouldn't that be a great

Quantcast