Shuttle for Sale

It's too late for Christmas delivery, but you could always go the douchebag route and wrap up a nice IOU picture of the space shuttle to put under the tree. After NASA finally retires the aging space shuttle program in 2010, the three unexploded orbiters will be up for grabs. Hold your hairpiece, Donald Trump. In order to be considered as a buyer, you have to be some sort of educational institution that can display the shuttle indoors under climate-controlled conditions. Oh, and you have to fork over more than $42 million in transportation costs (they refuse to break the thing down and reassemble it on the spot, so you'll foot the bill for piggybacking it on a jumbo jet). Also, the Smithsonian already called dibs on one. Personally, I'm pretty bummed that they won't come with the main engines. Those will set you back another $4-800,000 or so. Each. $42 million I can manage. My dad didn't steal all that Nazi gold for nothing. But the extra millions might be a little tough to scrape together in these trying economic times. I guess my plan of having my own personal spaceship (The Thunder Road!) will have to be put on hold for a while longer. More details here.