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The notes are expected to fetch $60,000. also dehydrated potato soup from apollo 13 the price is expected to be 6 to $8,000. a dollar bill signed by teacher chris at this mcauliffe and members of the challenger space shuttle that exploded 73 seconds after takeoff is also being auctioned. the starting bid is expected to be $1,000. it will get underway at bonham s auction house here in new york city. jon? jon: nasa has some budget problems but they re not selling this stuff, are they? reporter: no. the auction house says most of the items offered come from private collectors. some come directly from the astronauts themselves. up until recently, nasa tried to prevent the sale of space artifacts saying they were obtained by astronauts on the job and therefore the artifacts were the property of the government. a few months ago though that changed. there was a bill written into law last september by president obama which said that the astronauts were now allowed officially to sell ....
Hundreds of lunar rocks and space samples. hard to find a space sample because it is a sample of space and the audit, that was a joke. suggesting many more could be missing. agency regularly loans out samples to researchers, some whom keep them for years. nasa is committed to protecting our space artifacts. look to see new recommendations in place for nasa for items like these in the years to come. martha: there is big daily fee likely blairry book. bill: there is? martha: if you have a space stuff out too long you get a big fine when you return it. keep that in mind. bill: you said there was a moon rock at my apartment? come over to check it out. martha: just saying. so u.s. troops in iraq are beginning their long journey home and they re loadings up as they prepare to with draw by january 1st. dominic di-natale at the contingency operating base in southern iraq where the last convoy will roll out pretty soon. many dominic? reporter: here in southern iraq just outside ....
discovery has already been promised to the smithsonian in d.c. in order for a city to be considered, nasa requires that there must be a facility already in place or to be built to house the ship. each museum, by the way, has to be able to pay the $28.8 million price tag that will cover the cost of preparing the shuttle for display and transportation. the museum of flight in seattle is taking what some have called a pretty pricey gamble and is planning to build a $12 million display to have ready if they are picked. we would like to have a shuttle because one, it s one of the rarest of space artifacts, and it would be a great addition to not only the municipal seem e seaseattle area in terms of toum and educational value. reporter: the intrepid sea and air museum in new york say it s a no brainer in picking the big apple. ....