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Shuttles for sale

Shuttles for sale

Got an extra $42 million, why not buy an authentic NASA space shuttle? The US space agency has put out feelers to museums, educational institutions and other “appropriate” organizations to see if they are interested in purchasing the soon-to-be retired Atlantis, Discovery or Endeavour spaceships.

CSI: Geoscience unit

While my colleagues were sitting down to the office canteen’s Christmas lunch yesterday, I was down at London’s Geological Society looking at powerpoint slides of decaying corpses. Christmas may come once a year, but it’s only every other year that the Forensic Geoscience Group holds a conference.