Orbit 17 +++ Space and beyond » cheap shuttles http://www.orbit17.com galaxies, science, exploration, astronomy (blog) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 For £17.7m, shuttle is a gift that’s out of this world http://www.orbit17.com/for-17-7m-shuttle-is-a-gift-thats-out-of-this-world/ http://www.orbit17.com/for-17-7m-shuttle-is-a-gift-thats-out-of-this-world/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:15:23 +0000 galaxy17 http://www.orbit17.com/?p=439 Space Shuttle

The price of Nasa’s Space Shuttle fleet has just been slashed from £25.8m Credit: Getty

It flew faster and higher than any machine in history and was the was the ultimate boy’s toy, but at $42 million (£25.8 m) it was beyond most budgets. But now the price of Nasa’s soon-to-be redundant space shuttles has plummeted to something more down-to-earth: a new analysis of the costs of hauling the monster from the Kennedy Space Centre to a major US airport has led the space agency to slash the price to $28.2 m (£17.7m) .

Discovery, which has completed 37 missions into space and 5,247 orbits, has already been promised to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, but shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour are still available.

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