By William Stolerman

NASA is having a bit of a January sale of their own. They're dropped the price on two of their most iconic workhorse spacecrafts, the Atlantis and the Endeavour, from $42 million to $28.2 million.

While the other vehicle from the fleet (Discovery) has already been promised to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, NASA are looking for excitable buyers for their two other babies. They've made 54 space flight between them.

They're being retired this year as NASA embarks on a different space programme called Constellation with the new Ares 1-X rockets.

And if the shuttles don't appeal perhaps their engines do. They were originally priced at $400,000 and $800,000 but now they're being offered for free to anyone who can find room for them in their back yard.

Via [telegraph] & [newlaunches]

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