NASA announced today that the cost of buying a used space shuttle for display in your museum, educational facility or backyard has dropped from $42 million to the low, low, low price of just $28.8 million!!

And that’s not all!!

The delivery of these fine, almost one-of-a-kind vehicle has been moved up by six months!! Six months!!! IF YOU ACT NOW. (Actually, you have until February 19.)

NASA is absorbing the cost of “safeing” the vehicles, resulting in the price drop.

The agency’s release is pretty dry (“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is issuing a
Follow-up Request for Information (RFI) to obtain input from
educational institutions, science museums, and other appropriate
organizations about the community’s ability to acquire and publicly
display the Space Shuttle Orbiters after conclusion of the Space
Shuttle Program”).

That’s not going to get the job done.

We’re thinking more along these lines:

Hi, it’s Vince with Shamwow NASA! You’ll be saying wow every time you use this towel shuttle!

It’s like a chamois space shuttle! It’s like a towel space shuttle! It’s like a sponge space shuttle….This is for the house space, the car space, the boat space, the RV space!

….It is made in Germany by the lowest bidder, you know the Germans government sub-contractors always make good stuff. You can cut it in half, use one as a bath mat, drain your dishes with the other one, use one as a towel. Olympic divers, they use it as a towel shuttle, or they would if they ever went to space.

Look at that! Completely dry! Put a wet sweater, roll it up, it dries doesn’t dry your sweaters….You follow me, camera guy museum director? No other towel’s gonna do that! It acts like works in a vacuum! And look at this – virtually dry on the bottom! See what I’m telling ya? Shamwow! The shuttle! You’ll be saying wow every time!

This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.