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NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts

Posted by timothy on from the no-reserve-must-see-1st-owner dept.

beggs writes: "The New York Times is running this article about NASA using ebay and other web resources to find for sale stock piles of old hardware it needs to keep the Space Shuttle fleet up and running -- things like 8086 chips from pre-PC days!" Come to think of it, this might be a better way to take care of most NASA bidding anyhow.

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  1. Interesting... by BrianGa · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is NASA's feedback rating, and do they take/pay by Paypal?

  2. NASA outbid me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA outbid me on a set of Star Wars collectable Burger King glasses from 1983. This is your tax dollars at work! Those fuckers won the auction too! They must have used some space-based technology to outbid me at the evry last second!