NASA has reduced the price of preparing an orbiter for display and transport to a U.S. airport from $42 million to $28.8 million ("Shuttles for Sale," Feb./Mar. 2010). In a press release lastrnJanuary 15, the agency noted, "NASA has updated the requirements and tasks need-ed to make each orbiter safe for disposition...[and] will not ask recipients to provide the funds for this activity." Endeavour and Atlantis will be ready for transfer by July 2011 (Discovery has already been designated to go to the National Air and Space Museum).
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