The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added a feather into the chapiter of itsunder - construction museumby purchasing an iconic prop from 2001 : A Space Odyssey : the Aries 1B Trans - Lunar Spherical Space Shuttle .
According toDeadline , the cost was a cool $ 344,000 . The modelling is especially significant because not much stay on from the 2001 output , by deliberate choice :
Most of the props , sets , costumes and role model for this watershed 1968 film were purposely destroyed by conductor Stanley Kubrick in gild to keep them from being used in other motion picture . This one was one of the few item that live and was originally own in the 70 ’s by a public schooling graphics teacher who was given the lunar model with the accord the electronics from the shuttlecock be removed to teach this technology to his students .
AnIndiewirereport further notes :
The birdie good example come with a elaborated Letter of Provenience from the English collector , a local schoolhouse instructor from Kubrick ’s long - prison term residence of Hertfordshire , England , who originally get it in 1975 and stored the Space Shuttle for over 40 years at his personal studio .
The shuttle is trace as being both “ the actual fighter screen door used SFX model ” and in “ amazingly good term ; ” film fans will discern it as the Department of Transportation method acting Dr. Heywood Floyd use to get from the International Space Station to Clavius Base on the Moon .
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