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[i]NASA has decided to study the option of keeping Endeavour in a flight-like condition at one of Kennedy Space Center's three Orbiter Processing Facilities, according to documents obtained by msnbc.com. This study is to examine what personnel and funding would be needed to retain Endeavour instead of giving it up... "Our baseline plan continues to be to process the shuttle orbiters for retirement and prepare them for display after their last flights," [NASA spokesman Michael Curie] said Thursday in his e-mail. "As a what-if budget exercise, we are looking at what it would cost if a recipient was not ready to take an orbiter right away, and if we wanted to keep an orbiter in long-term storage for potential engineering analysis."[/i]
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