[meteorite-list] Massive amount of spaceflight artifacts coming onto the market

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

It's the last lines of this that are of the most interest.

Good luck,
E.P.

--- On Sat, 8/13/11, NASA News <hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov> wrote:

> From: NASA News <hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov>
> Subject: NASA Unveils New Batch Of Space Shuttle Program Artifacts
> To: "NASA News" <hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov>
> Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 12:47 PM
> August 12, 2011
> 
> Michael Curie 
> Headquarters, Washington      
> 202-358-1100 
> michael.curie at nasa.gov   
> RELEASE: 11-259
> 
> NASA UNVEILS NEW BATCH OF SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ARTIFACTS
> 
> WASHINGTON -- The final space shuttle landing July 21
> opened new prospects for eligible education institutions, museums and
> other organizations to receive a piece of spaceflight history. On
> Monday, Aug. 15, the eighth batch of artifacts from NASA's space
> programs will be available on a website that the agency and the
> General Services Administration (GSA) developed. 
> 
> The artifacts are not only from the shuttle era, but also
> from the Apollo, Mercury, Hubble Space Telescope programs. The
> approximately  2,000 items include: 
> -- the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, an underwater
> habitat that was used to demonstrate space life support system
> ideas for use on space stations 
> -- shuttle heat shield tiles used to test problems experienced during 
> missions 
> -- parts of Apollo and shuttle era spacesuits, including
> hard upper torso garments to protect astronauts from extreme
> temperatures 
> 
> To view and request space artifacts, visit: 
> http://gsaxcess.gov/NASAWel.htm   
> 
> 
> Each artifact will be available for 42 days. For the first
> 21 days, internal organizations such as NASA visitor centers, agency
> exhibit managers and the Smithsonian Institution may request
> artifacts. 
> External organizations, including museums, schools, universities, 
> libraries, and planetariums may request artifacts during
> the following 21 days. 
> 
> After the screening period and completion of the request
> process, organizations will be notified about the status of their
> application. Artifacts are released incrementally when NASA no longer
> needs them, in accordance with export control laws and regulations.
> They are provided free of charge, but requesting organizations must
> pay for shipping and any special handling costs. 
> 
> To date, approximately 29,000 items of historic significance have been 
> offered, mainly from the shuttle, with contributions from the Hubble, 
> Apollo, Mercury, Gemini, and International Space Station programs. 
> Approximately 3,000 artifacts have been requested. 


>>>The remainder will be considered for federal and state reuse and then >>>offered to the general public for sale. 
> 
> For information about NASA's space shuttle transition and
> artifacts, 
> visit: 
> http://www.nasa.gov/transition   
> http://artifacts.nasa.gov 

> In addition to artifacts, NASA also is offering a Shuttle
> Training  Aircraft (STA) through another GSA hosted web-based site: 
> http://gsaxcess.gov/   
> 
> The STA is a modified Gulfstream II that allowed pilots to
> simulate orbiter landings under controlled conditions. Other STAs
> will be displayed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dryden
> Flight  Research Center in California, and the U.S. Space and
> Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. 
> 
> -end-
>