[jazusamo]

Texas has a good gripe, New York has no connection to the shuttle.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Texas didn’t vote for Obama and NY did.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Whenever a mishap occurred aboard a US space mission, it never was “Cape Canaveral, we have a problem.” Houston was in the middle of it. However, people remember the launch sites. Houston’s legacy goes way back — doesn’t it have any retired craft?

[Jim from C-Town]

I agree whole hearted with the Representative. Houston is the home city of manned space flight. FL has the launch facilities. DC has the Smithsonian. Ohio also desperately wanted one for the Write Paterson Museum in Dayton (That's where the little green men from Rosswell, NM are located, allegedly) Houston was screwed. NYC doesn't need it and has NO connection to anything to do with space flight.

[Jim from C-Town]

I agree whole hearted with the Representative. Houston is the home city of manned space flight. FL has the launch facilities. DC has the Smithsonian. Ohio also desperately wanted one for the Write Paterson Museum in Dayton (That's where the little green men from Rosswell, NM are located, allegedly) Houston was screwed. NYC doesn't need it and has NO connection to anything to do with space flight.

[texaschick]

Hopefully soon we will be reading the headline “Ted Poe punches Schumer in the nose”. And I will applaud.

[deport]

Even Shelia Jack-Lee’s letter to Obama wasn’t enough to get Houston an orbiter.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I thought Texas already got the space shuttle Columbia.

[Sloth]

Look, NASA’s new mission, according to its head, is to make Muslims feel good about themselves. Putting a shuttle in Houston wouldn’t do anything to forward that goal.

[Waryone]

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.

[bootless]

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.

[Razzz42]

Texas not getting a shuttle is a small price to pay for murder.

[Wonder Warthog]

""NASA made a mistake," Poe said during a Sunday interview with Fox News. "People understand the center of space exploration is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It has been for almost 50 years. It is a historical snub, if you will, to take the shuttle and put it somewhere else."

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.