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Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City
Hugh Pickens writes "Bloomberg reports that New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and a bipartisan delegation of 17 US representatives from New York and New Jersey have sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden calling for the agency to place a shuttle aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. A former aircraft carrier, Intrepid served as one of NASA's recovery vehicles for early space flights. Intrepid officials have gathered almost 57,000 signatures on a petition to bring an orbiter to New York, and NASA is weighing 21 bids from visitors' centers, science museums and educational institutions eager to host one of the three aging space shuttles that will be retired this year. 'These are going to be like the Mona Lisa,' says space historian John Logsdon, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 1506 portrait of a woman in Florence that remains on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. 'The primary criteria for the shuttles' location will be the stability of the site and whether the chosen institutions can exhibit them for the next 500 years.'"
The Intrepid is an incredible aviation/military museum. I have a picture of me standing behind a giant torpedo and my buddy bending over at the tip of the torpedo. It was great, a lot of the other visitors were laughing and several were pissed, but we got the picture! It would be an honor for a Space Shuttle to be an exhibit on the giant decommissioned carrier.
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I think the idea of a space shuttle in NYC is a good idea. Most New Yorkers I've met are convinced that they are the cream of the Earths intellectuals. We could call it public transportation and start shuttling them into space. Then they could be the Cream of the Universe intellectuals. Of course one shuttle would not be enough so we could use a large cannon based on the potato gun to export the rest of them.
That would be a more liberal green economic solution to the lack of New Yorkers in space. Then we could facilitate Massachusetts.
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