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ToSeek
20-July-2005, 07:26 PM
Shuttle Prototype For Sale On eBay (http://www.wesh.com/news/4738467/detail.html)

How would you like to own a piece of space shuttle history?

A Daytona Beach man is selling an original NASA space shuttle prototype on eBay with a starting bid of $25,000.

The prototype is a .006 scale Convair shuttle booster and hypersonic pressure model that was made in 1970 so NASA engineers could develop the wing shapes and surface size of the orbiter, WESH 2 News reported.
Charlie in Dayton
20-July-2005, 09:56 PM
$25,000?

$25,000?

$25,000?


...I don't think so...
Nicolas
21-July-2005, 11:02 AM
ANd touching it bare-handed [-X

Never allowed on these models!
publiusr
21-July-2005, 06:23 PM
Drools!

That looks to be the Faget Straight-Wing concept:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuenara.htm
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/Faget%2BStraight-wing%2Bshuttle

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch5.htm (I however reject the idea that the Titans were cheaper that the Saturn IB--Titan IV costs a billion a shot these days


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