The same shipyard also refurbished the USS Iowa. My dad loved that project. He worked in the shipyards when WWII started and ended up on a PT boat in the Pacific. Even though he was well past retirement age they kept him going to work every day until the morning he died of a heart attack while he was getting ready for work. He said he would sit for days and days and get no much as a phone call, then one day they would come and get him and take him down the Iowa to look at something in the way of pipe fitting or ship fitting that none of today's yard guys had ever seen. Usually he would be able to at least point them in the right direction to figure it out. It was a real blessing having the USS Alabama less than 60 mile away! They would go over there and see how whatever was a problem had been handled on the Alabama.
Everyone should have a chance to see the shuttle being taken back to FL aboard its 747 and everyone should have a chance to see a WWII battleship in dry dock!