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[i]Only about $120,000 of the estimated $300,000 project cost has been raised so far, said Charlie Mars, president of the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation and Space Museum in Titusville. Mars’ organization coordinated fundraising for monuments to the three earlier major U.S. manned space programs — Mercury, Gemini and Apollo — and is doing the same for the shuttle program. “It’s very much slower than we thought,” he said. “We’ve had a difficult time interesting the workers who have been out there over the last 10 years.” In all, about 500 people have paid $100 apiece for a black-granite nameplate that will include their name and employer, raising $50,000 for the project. That’s about a quarter of a percent of the 200,000 people Mars estimates have worked for NASA and its contractors on the shuttle program during the past three decades. In addition, about $70,000 has been raised for the project from space-related companies, foundations and other fundraising projects. The top contributors so far include The Boeing Co., Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex operator Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, main shuttle contractor United Space Alliance and the Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc. of Milwaukee, whose founders are affiliated with a real estate development company, Mars said.[/i]
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