Michael_D'Alessandro%Wayne-MTS%UMich-MTS.Mailnet@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (08/01/84)
About 2 years ago I read an article in Omni about
a person who bought used and surplus space items
from NASA. Among the items he owned were space suits,
spare satellite parts, and even a complete, unused
backup satellite. It seems that the way he did this
was by combing through catalogs of government auctions
which listed every now and then space items, and attending
those auctions. He was able to pick up this stuff at
fire-sale prices. Has anyone heard anything else about
this? Would anyone know where I could write away to to
obtain these catalogs of stuff the government auctions off?
How does NASA dispose of surplus/obsolete space artifacts?
Michael D'Alessandro