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The notes are expected to fetch $60,000. also dehydrated potato soup from apollo 13 the price is expected to be 6 to $8,000. a dollar bill signed by teacher chris at this mcauliffe and members of the challenger space shuttle that exploded 73 seconds after takeoff is also being auctioned. the starting bid is expected to be $1,000. it will get underway at bonham's auction house here in new york city. jon? jon: nasa has some budget problems but they're not selling this stuff, are they? >> reporter: no. the auction house says most of the items offered come from private collectors. some come direct...

Hundreds of lunar rocks and space samples. hard to find a space sample because it is a sample of space and the audit, that was a joke. suggesting many more could be missing. agency regularly loans out samples to researchers, some whom keep them for years. nasa is committed to protecting our space artifacts. look to see new recommendations in place for nasa for items like these in the years to come. martha: there is big daily fee likely blairry book. bill: there is? martha: if you have a space stuff out too long you get a big fine when you return it. keep that in mind. bill: you said there was ...

"discovery" has already been promised to the smithsonian in d.c. in order for a city to be considered, nasa requires that there must be a facility already in place or to be built to house the ship. each museum, by the way, has to be able to pay the $28.8 million price tag that will cover the cost of preparing the shuttle for display and transportation. the museum of flight in seattle is taking what some have called a pretty pricey gamble and is planning to build a $12 million display to have ready if they are picked. >> we would like to have a shuttle because one, it's one of the rarest of spa...