Minimium asking-price: 6 million dollars.
<< CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Los Angeles radio station is planning to auction off a Russian Buran space shuttle and the minimum asking price is $6 million.
News 980 KFWB-AM will start accepting bids for the used ship on the station's web site at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) Friday. The auction closes May 22 at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).
And though there are certainly people in the Southern California area who might be able to afford their own spaceplane -- Tom Cruise has been suggested in particular -- auction organizers are not really expecting it to sell.
"We're looking at it like it probably won't, but it's just a lot of fun and people will have a good time with it," said Pam Baker, director of marketing and sales for KFWB-AM's web site.
Buran -- Russian for snowstorm -- is the name of the Russian shuttle that made one unmanned spaceflight in November 1988.
It circled Earth twice, landed automatically and since then has more or less sat in storage at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan -- along with at least one other fully-built shuttle that has been called Ptichka, which means "little bird." >>
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<< CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Los Angeles radio station is planning to auction off a Russian Buran space shuttle and the minimum asking price is $6 million.
News 980 KFWB-AM will start accepting bids for the used ship on the station's web site at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) Friday. The auction closes May 22 at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).
And though there are certainly people in the Southern California area who might be able to afford their own spaceplane -- Tom Cruise has been suggested in particular -- auction organizers are not really expecting it to sell.
"We're looking at it like it probably won't, but it's just a lot of fun and people will have a good time with it," said Pam Baker, director of marketing and sales for KFWB-AM's web site.
Buran -- Russian for snowstorm -- is the name of the Russian shuttle that made one unmanned spaceflight in November 1988.
It circled Earth twice, landed automatically and since then has more or less sat in storage at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan -- along with at least one other fully-built shuttle that has been called Ptichka, which means "little bird." >>
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