NASA recently made a
decision to distribute the retired shuttle fleet to various cities around the country. Discovery went to the Smithsonian (makes perfect sense), Atlantis went to Kennedy Space Center in Florida (again, makes perfect sense). The Endevour goes to Los Angeles and the Callifornia Science Center (uh...ok....) and Enterprise (which never went into space) goes to Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York.
Wait a miniute...no Houston? The site of NASA Mission Control doesn't warrant getting a shuttle for a museum piece?
Let me tell you, it's been a crapstorm in Houston since the decision was announced. The rednecks predictably are blaming Obama, of course. Others are saying that Houston had 3 years to put a proposal together but didn't get serious about it until about a year ago.
150 years after the Civil War, it looks like there's another
catfight brewing between the Yankees and the Southern Boys. Texas congressmen and women have introduced a bill to take New York's shuttle. This little tit for tat resulted:
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That drew this response from New York Congressman Charles Schumer, "When people from Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Amsterdam start saying they want to go to Houston, maybe then they'll get a shuttle. I'd say to Texas, don't mess with New York."
Texas Congressman Ted Poe then fired back, "whether Senator Schumer likes it or not, the Big Apple had nothing to do with NASA or the space shuttle program until Tuesday."
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I hope it passes. I find it unbelievable that they figure LA or New York has more of a right to a space shuttle than Houston does.