It is the perfect gift for the man, or woman, who has everything, and it has been heavily discounted.


But you will still need a rather large bank balance to purchase the Discovery Space Shuttle, which is being sold off by Nasa for $28.2 m (£17.7m).

The soon-to-be redundant shuttle was the ultimate boy's toy, flying faster and higher than any other machine in history. It was originally worth $42 million (£25.8 m) but the price has plummeted to take in the cost of hauling the monster from the Kennedy Space Centre to a major US airport.

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, the Independent reports.

Nasa is considering mulling the possibility of putting Enterprise, a shuttle prototype that never made it to space, on sale.

Nasa decided to sell the shuttles ahead of their retirement later this year. They are set to be replaced by the new Ares 1-X rocket, which is due to take over all manned space flights in 2015.

If the new price is still too daunting, an even bigger bargain comes in the shape of the shuttle's engines - no longer required once the craft is in a museum. The agency offered them for sale at between $400,000 and $800,000, but there were no takers. They are now offering them free, to anyone with the ability to take them home.

Ya I was just reading this on Google...
So wat you suppose to do with the shuttle.. Buy it n Park in ur driveway...  :
I know they will be at space station...
But imagine this... in the morning u will back up ur shuttle to go to work... n wat if it snowed last nite.. so you clean ur windsheald in the morning...  : :

Wesse Moved

Ya I was just reading this on Google...
So wat you suppose to do with the shuttle.. Buy it n Park in ur driveway...  :
I know they will be at space station...
But imagine this... in the morning u will back up ur shuttle to go to work... n wat if it snowed last nite.. so you clean ur windsheald in the morning...  : :

Wesse Moved

m a poor student. cnt even think of buying it. i wud prefer an Aston Martin ova dt.

free
not even free man
if they give me another half a million with it ill take it
i m gona buy a land for it first

only engine is for free. i wud prefer an Aston Martin though :happy:

i prefer lamborghini
but we'll get what we can :D

I might need a loan.

PJ denda loan. you may apply :Cry:

:laugh: :hehe: :hehe: apan ser kahnu bhani jana

ki kra hor samj prde ha ni te comments kr dende. i made it clear discovery is not for sale now. they r offering its engine for free to anyone who can afford to take it :Cry:

 
 
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Rocket da engine a start Kita 5 mint ch uk ...10 mint ch aistralia , 20 mint ch Russia jithe mRji job kareo ...economy da darr ni rehna sari duniya mitra d ho jani ...ghar de bahar rocket launcher hona