BodybyFisher Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Want a retired space shuttle? They're up for grabs By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn, Ap Aerospace Writer Thu Dec 18, 3:24 am ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's soon-to-be-retired space shuttles are up for grabs. The space agency said Wednesday it's looking for ideas on where and how best to display its space shuttles once they stop flying in a few years. It's put out a call to schools, science museums and "other appropriate organizations" that might be interested in showcasing one of the three remaining shuttles. Beware: NASA estimates it will cost about $42 million to get each shuttle ready and get it where it needs to go, and the final tab could end up much more. The estimate includes $6 million to ferry the spaceship atop a modified jumbo jet to the closest major airport. But the price could skyrocket depending on how far the display site is from the airport. Only indoor, climate-controlled displays will be considered. "The orbiters will not be disassembled for transportation or storage," NASA insists in its nine-page request for information. One space shuttle appears headed to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The remaining two would be placed in storage at Kennedy Space Center until their final homes are decided. If a space shuttle is too pricey, NASA is offering some of its shuttle main engines for anywhere between $400,000 and $800,000, not counting shipping costs. The space shuttles, so you know, will not come with any main engines. NASA plans to retire Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour by Sept. 30, 2010, in keeping with President George Bush's initiative calling for a return by astronauts to the moon by 2020. A transition team set up by President-elect Barack Obama is reviewing all the options, however, including the possibility of keeping the shuttles flying beyond 2010. If that happens, then all space shuttle deals are off. ___ On the Net: NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/transition Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadillac Jim Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Perhaps the US should keep one ready to provide an orbital final resting place for all the Ponzi scheme operators that are beached by the economic downturn. To keep the numbers down to the capacity of the Space Shuttle, we could include only sole operators of operations grossing over $100M or some such figure that emerges as the economic tides recede, revealing all the hollow, bloated corpses exposed in the courtroom proceedings around the world. We would include the mortgage bankers that turned CRA 77 into a giant $1T Ponzi scheme by repackaging "the best of" bad mortgage debt as low-risk bonds and marketing them as such. The view out the window would provide the perpetrators a focus upon which they could focus their contemplation of the beauty of our planet and the consequences of their actions. A ShuttleCam could provide footage for posterity of their contemplations, which should manifest themselves more actively as the oxygen runs out. -- Click Here for CaddyInfo page on "How To" Read Your OBD Codes-- Click Here for my personal page to download my OBD code list as an Excel file, plus other Cadillac data -- See my CaddyInfo car blogs: 2011 CTS-V, 1997 ETC Yes, I was Jims_97_ETC before I changed cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodybyFisher Posted December 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Wait until the commercial mess comes home to roost... Lets not forget to include Chris Dowd as co-pilot and Barney Frank as pilot Pre-1995 - DTC codes OBD1 >> 1996 and newer - DTC codes OBD2 >> https://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/gm/obd_codes.htm How to check for codes Caddyinfo How To Technical Archive >> http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/cadillac-how-to-faq/ Cadillac History & Specifications Year by Year http://www.motorera.com/cadillac/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted December 19, 2008 Report Share Posted December 19, 2008 Perhaps the US should keep one ready to provide an orbital final resting place for all the Ponzi scheme operators that are beached by the economic downturn. To keep the numbers down to the capacity of the Space Shuttle, we could include only sole operators of operations grossing over $100M or some such figure that emerges as the economic tides recede, revealing all the hollow, bloated corpses exposed in the courtroom proceedings around the world. We would include the mortgage bankers that turned CRA 77 into a giant $1T Ponzi scheme by repackaging "the best of" bad mortgage debt as low-risk bonds and marketing them as such. The view out the window would provide the perpetrators a focus upon which they could focus their contemplation of the beauty of our planet and the consequences of their actions. A ShuttleCam could provide footage for posterity of their contemplations, which should manifest themselves more actively as the oxygen runs out. In a time past they might have been forced to walk the plank. That time is gone; out the airlock with them I say! Arrrgh . . . There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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