Posted on 04/17/2011 7:32:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
Ha! That just goes to show Zer0 is really ticked at TX.
LBJ was a visionary moving jobs out of CA to TX. Saved a bundle of money. CA has proven unworthy of having any Govt/Def jobs. CA still has a lot, but doesn’t deserve them.
A lot of things can be said about LBJ but visionary isn’t one of them unless it was padding his pocket or political ambition, IMO.
They were designed, built and tested in California.
If any state deserves a shuttle, it's California whether you realize it or not.
Bravo Sierra! If it wasn’t for the work done at Edwards AFB
there WOULDN’T BE A SPACE PROGRAM!!! Yes I’m YELLING!
Chicago got a shuttle simulator, that's probably a better score for a "hands on" museum.
Regards,
Gtg
What you said... and they got to see it coming down. Anyway, I read blurbs from people asking why California got one. Don't people realize thhey were built in California, many landed in California, and NASA has a big presence in California? Not so with NY.
A Saturn rocket, but is just a tiny thing.
I would liked to add that you are totally ignorant of the history of the Space Program. Take the time to read what went on in the late 1940’s, 1950’s & 60’s & 70’s at Edwards AFB. The first shuttle landings were at Edwards AFB -— I watched them! GET REAL!!!
Be that as it may, the name “Houston<” is iconic in the huistory of the program. To give it to New York is an insult.
When I heard them say which locations would get shuttles, I was shocked that Houston was left off the list. The only two places I knew for certain had to get them were the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Space Center. Then I thought the Johnson Space Center would be a third place. The non flying Enterprise I thought might stay out in California.
But it does seem that every place that got a shuttle voted for Obama and that left Texas out in the cold. I’m sure their excuse will be that they have to put one somewhere up north.
Space Center Houston (the public museum) has a Saturn V rocket (was going to be Apollo 18 before the program was cancelled), A Mercury craft, the forward (crew) section of one of the Gemini capsules, and the Command Module from Apollo 17, the last fight to go to the Moon. They also have the life-size trainer module for Skylab.
Even though they have all that...I still think Houston should have gotten a Shuttle. That bastard Obama just wanted to be petty and hateful because Texans don’t like him or his policies.
Sheila Jackson-Lee requested Houston get the flag that was planted on Mars.
OK, this is weird. Enterprise is ALREADY at Udvar-Hazy. Why move it? Its restoration was quite a delicate operation, and IMHO, it’s best kept there.
New York and a shuttle? What?
Let me be the millionth person to say, Houston, we have a problem.
I agree but NY has the Intrepid, now the Interpid with a shuttle, let texas have a shuttle!
Texas not getting a shuttle is a small price to pay for murder.
Uh, if they have the Johnson Space Center, why do they also need the Shuttle?? I would think that having the first obviates the second, since the JSP is already a monument to the space effort.
Bingo,
We have a winner
Never fear, a new one will be built just for that purpose.
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