We've seen a number of amazing movie props go up for auction at ridiculous prices over the years, and have always wondered who has the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to win them all. Well, apparently the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences can be categorized as having this kind of financial liquidity, as the organization has just paid $344,000 to own a piece of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. So what exactly did the Oscars organization buy? It's the screen-used SFX model Pan Am Nuclear Powered Aries 1B Trans-Lunar Spherical Space Shuttle - a.k.a. the ...
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