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Retiring Shuttle fleet finds their new homes

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:25 pm 
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At a ceremony held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the facilities where four shuttle orbiters will be displayed permanently at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.

Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.

The Udvar-Hazy Center will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which retired after completing its 39th mission in March. Shuttle Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.



(On a personal note...being less than an hour from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, I am EXTREMELY disappointed. They were among the 20 odd museums vying for an orbiter. Would have really liked being able to see one up close so near to my home)

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:21 pm 
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It's really sad to see these babies go into retirement.

They are by far the most complex machines mankind has ever built and they did their jobs well, only external forces and circumstance ever took a shuttle down.

It's a crying shame that there is not an even more complex spacecraft to vie as the successor of the fames Space Shuttles.

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No shuttle for Houston, but one for New York? What the hell?


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:35 pm 
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We were also disappointed in Ohio that the National Museum of the United States Air Force (at the Wright Patterson AFB) didn't make the cut.


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