NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet 195
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."
Bittersweet... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's good that we have a museum to put these historic artifacts into, but I would prefer that we have something to replace them with. That feeling is more intense when I see either a Saturn V or a LEM at one of the museums.
Ex Astris, Scientia (Score:4, Insightful)
The Enterprise should go to San Fransisco. Future Starfleet Academy Cadets could use it for training & simulations.
Re:RIP (Score:5, Insightful)
The formula since the mid-'70s in almost every Western country has been as follows:
Make service bureaucratic and inefficient -> observe cost increase -> reduce service levels rather than bureaucracy -> observe service level reduction -> announce that partnership with private sector will improve service provision -> observe cost increase -> reduce service levels rather than profits -> observe service level reduction -> announce that government is a failure -> sell off everything -> announce record deficit reduction -> declare that your country is free from the tyranny of government -> end up with no service at all.
Enjoy your corporations.
Seattle wanted one...But still gets a win (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Bittersweet... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sadly, it costs money to preserve. And politicians don't like to give money to projects unless they can get some present-day political mileage out of them.