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What happens to decommissioned spacecraft?
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Spaceflight Participant  
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 What happens to decommissioned spacecraft? Posted on: Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:48 amWhere do they go? Can people buy pieces of them? Maybe even the whole thing?
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Spaceflight Trainee  
Joined: Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:02 am
Posts: 37 Location: Bement, IL
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Posted on: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:54 pm I have seen things like pieces of data tape from Apollo and Mercury missions on sale through e-bay. As far as larger items, I have no clue... Anyone???
Ken - KC7RAD _________________ Ken Linder - KC7RAD "We turned our gaze From the castles in the distance, Eyes cast down On the path of least resistance" Rush, "A Farewell to Kings" |
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Launch Director  
Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:55 pm
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Posted on: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:50 pm I think that most of them go to museums.
There is a page somewhere that lists the locations of all the US spacecraft. |
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Space Station Member  
Joined: Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:09 pm
Posts: 268 Location: Orlando, FL
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Posted on: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:20 pm Yep, they end up in museums. There will be one that has the main ownership over the spacecraft, and then the craft will be rented out for displays at other museums for extended amounts of time...
_________________ University of Central Florida Industrial Engineering Dept. Class of 2010 UCF-LM CWEP Intern Lockheed Martin Orlando Missiles & Fire Control |
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Spaceflight Participant
Joined: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:57 am
Posts: 82 Location: PA,USA
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Posted on: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:31 pm To bad.
You missed out on the Russian Buran space Shuttle that sold a couple years back. |
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Moderator 
Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:01 am
Posts: 750 Location: New Zealand
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Posted on: Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:03 am That sounds like the title of a children's book.
"Where do decommisioned spacecraft go when they die?" _________________ What goes up better doggone well stay up! - Morgan Gravitronics, Company Slogan. |
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Spaceflight Participant
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Posted on: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:59 pm |
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Space Walker  
Joined: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:05 pm
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Posted on: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:15 pm EBAY
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40129&item=3935014852&rd=1[/url] [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40129&item=3934296266&rd=1 [/url] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40129&item=3934297143&rd=1 _________________ Thank you very much Mister Roboto For helping escape when I needed most Thank you Thank you |
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Space Walker 
Joined: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:42 am
Posts: 191 Location: Cider country, England.
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Posted on: Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:57 pm I once saw a TV documentary on a village hospital in Russia that was having to deal with people from out in the sticks. They seemed to exhibit signs of a radiation like sickness. When they travelled out to the dachas and hunting lodges, they found that many of them were constructed from old rockets which had been crashed back down or abandoned! Only in Russia eh!
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