NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @07:09AM from the new-york-just-got-cooler dept.

PyroMosh writes "NASA administrator Charles Bolden just announced the final homes for the four remaining Space Shuttle Orbiters in a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center today commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first Shuttle launch. The Shuttle Atlantis will remain at NASA's home of Shuttle Launch operations — Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, just miles from where she was assembled. Discovery will be moved to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum in Virginia outside of Washington DC — the very hangar that Enterprise now occupies. Finally, the Shuttle airframe prototype Enterprise will be moved from her current home to the U.S.S. Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum in New York City."

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Re:Politics... by Tsiangkun · 2011-04-12 07:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Texas is anti-science. Texas is where anti-science text books get rubber stamped for use in schools across the country. I'm rather glad we aren't sending historical artifacts from when we led in Science and Engineering to the state that most directly destroys science education in this country.