Anonymous
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8/2/2025, 5:21:39 PM
No.512042223
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8/2/2025, 5:21:39 PM
No.512042223
>>512042438
>>512043153
>>512043200
>>512043311
NASA rovercar for sale!
NASA rovercar prototype from 1990 which never was sent space (Soviet Union was dismantled so why would NASA continue space flexing?) is on sale:
https://www.hemmings.com/listing/1990-airstream-all-models-478166
The vehicle "once led the Space Shuttle down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, it was its test run on Earth" The Drive Magazine reported, noting the vehicle was won in an corona auction in 2022 for $21,061 (beating 18 other bidders).
He wanted to resell it for larger sum.
"I just figured the NASA brand combined with Airsteam hip seemed like a can't lose combination," the old buyer says now, in a new listing for the vehicle on the on the automotive sales site Hemmings.com asking $199,000..
>They're touting it as a priceless marketing/publicity prop —
"a once in a lifetime opportunity" to own what was once an "onsite command center complete with communications and atmospheric monitoring...
Imagine pulling into Burning Man driving this..." The seller points out it's the only p-built protype ever actually built as finished. (The others were crushed, except for one donated to the Kennedy museum.) But for this one "Apparently there was some miscommunication when the vehicle was decommissioned. It should have been offered to museums but the sales team did not know what it was." So it ended in a private collection instead.)
The seller apparently first tried listing it on eBay in May for $50,000. ("Reserve not met, did not want sell" says that listing page now. "Very well maintained, minor dings on exterior...")
https://www.hemmings.com/listing/1990-airstream-all-models-478166
The vehicle "once led the Space Shuttle down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, it was its test run on Earth" The Drive Magazine reported, noting the vehicle was won in an corona auction in 2022 for $21,061 (beating 18 other bidders).
He wanted to resell it for larger sum.
"I just figured the NASA brand combined with Airsteam hip seemed like a can't lose combination," the old buyer says now, in a new listing for the vehicle on the on the automotive sales site Hemmings.com asking $199,000..
>They're touting it as a priceless marketing/publicity prop —
"a once in a lifetime opportunity" to own what was once an "onsite command center complete with communications and atmospheric monitoring...
Imagine pulling into Burning Man driving this..." The seller points out it's the only p-built protype ever actually built as finished. (The others were crushed, except for one donated to the Kennedy museum.) But for this one "Apparently there was some miscommunication when the vehicle was decommissioned. It should have been offered to museums but the sales team did not know what it was." So it ended in a private collection instead.)
The seller apparently first tried listing it on eBay in May for $50,000. ("Reserve not met, did not want sell" says that listing page now. "Very well maintained, minor dings on exterior...")
