Stuff you find on Ebay

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2004-05-18 01:06pm

heres an intresting one I found:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 40157&rd=1

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2004-05-18 01:10pm

when I found it it was below $4,000, damn did it go up.

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-05-18 04:39pm

How the heck are they going to ship that thing?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-18 04:47pm

wait a second here. . .the russians have a space shuttle?

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-05-18 04:56pm

Darth_Zod wrote:wait a second here. . .the russians have a space shuttle?

You didn't know that? It's different from the american one since it doesn't have engines on it and it's launched by strapping it to this really huge rocket.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-05-18 05:28pm

Shit. We should pool funds and buy it then use it to win the x prize.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-05-18 10:37pm

muse wrote:How the heck are they going to ship that thing?

Launch it into space and crash it into where you live, which is covered in the "shipping and handling" cost?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-05-18 10:46pm

Was the winning bid done by NASA

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-05-18 10:54pm

The Russian shuttle is a funny thing; only a single useabul example was ever built, which made only a single unmanned two-orbit flight. But several of the test versions (which where incapable of making a space flight) have had interesting lives. One is now a restaurant in Moscow, a LA radio station tried to auction off another (IIRC the Russian goverment pulled the plug on that) and another was flown to Australia for display during the Olympic games for some unknown reason.