Payments to NASA for "Apollo 13" hint at commercial potential
Producers of the hit summer movie "Apollo 13" paid NASA $6,500 an hour for flights on the KC-135 "Vomit Comet" where weightlessness scenes were filmed, giving an idea of the commercial potential of a NASA asset targeted on Capitol Hill for privatization. Johnson Space Center received $305,500 for 18...
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