“We didn’t know what we were selling! We didn’t advertise it or offer it up to museums, the phone has exploded.”
A NASA Airstream that served as a Convoy Command Vehicle for Space Shuttle operations got sold in a government surplus auction by mistake. Staff thought it was just a van. The buyer got it cheap in 2022 and now wants $199K. No takers so far. Only one NASA Airstream was ever sold commercially. The rest were destroyed or went to museums. Government asset management is predictably incompetent.