NY Senator: Don't Mess With New York's Shuttle

msnbc ^ | 16 Apr 2011 | Ryan Korsgard

[smokingfrog]

HOUSTON — A senator from New York said Texas should not mess with New York's shuttle.

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said Friday that New York, not Houston, deserved a space shuttle.

A Republican representative from Utah, Jason Chaffetz, is pushing a bill that would take the shuttle away from New York's Intrepid Museum and ship a shuttle to Houston. The representative called it common sense. Schumer said New York is a natural choice because that's where more people would see the shuttle.

"I say to the people in Houston: When people all around the world - in London and Tokyo and Paris and Buenos Aires - say 'Gee I can't wait for my trip to Houston,' then (they) can have a shuttle. Until then, it's staying in New York because New York is where it belongs," Schumer said.

[dblshot]

Schumer is just rude. Well nasty and rude. I guess that’s what his constituents like though since they keep reelecting him. At least Andrew Dice Clay rhymed.

[sasquatch]

Send ‘em the Columbia.

[Tupelo]

This is a no brainer. There are one hell of a lot more Democrat votes in New York than there are in Texas. Therefore the shuttle goes to New York.

[stefanbatory]

sigh...the eunuchs have burned the fleet and are now squabbling over the ashes...

[KarlInOhio]

How quickly will the New York shuttle be so coated with gang graffiti that you can't even tell what the original color was?

[PzLdr]

Chucky Cheese. Never met a camera he didn’t like. Even if he has nothing intelligent to say. Which is ALL the time.

[cameraeye]

They'll just call it "Camouflaged". Need more coffee.....

[originalbuckeye]

New York had NOTHING to do with the Shuttle program. But with the Narcissist-in-Chief at the helm, to the Dems go ALL the spoils. WE are the silent majority and WE (hopefully) are finding our voice anew. I want to wake up in a country where success is praised and rewarded again. We MUST win all in 2012. Or America will be lost.

[BenLurkin]

Why is a Shuttle going to New York? Was it built there? Was it launched from there? Was ground control there?

[Paco]

"Chuck," the twin towers were an icon of NY and the US. Ten years later you haven't even broken ground on rebuilding them and instead are going full steam ahead on a mosque blocks away...against overwhelming opposition.

Seems to me NY has forfeited its claim to anything that portrays Americas greatness until you get your priorities straight.

[Charles Martel]

Good question. Here’s another: Why is a *second* Shuttle going to the Smithsonian?

[No Truce With Kings]

“Why is a Shuttle going to New York? Was it built there? Was it launched from there? Was ground control there?”

Same reason an Orbiter went to L.A. — Chicago rules. Punish your adversaries and reward your allies, regardless of other merit. The only thing that surprised me was that Chicago did not get an Orbiter, too. I suppose buying Florida’s electoral votes was more important.

But just watch. After the 2012 Presidential election, if The Won wins, the Shuttle at Florida will be moved to Chicago on the grounds that there are already two others on the Atlantic coast, and Middle America deserves an Orbiter.

[I cannot think of a name]

“New York is a natural choice because that’s where more people would see the shuttle”

10 Shuttles, a million dancing girls - naked, dollar bills lining the streets...

NOPE

Still not getting me to that rotting pest hole called New York City.

Upstate New York I wouldn’t mind visiting again. The city I only see as of any value if we need to restart above ground nuclear testing again.

[ken5050]

I read there were some dozen cities/venue who wanted a shuttle, and met the financial and display criteria. Recognizing that no matter what they did, someone would be pi**ed, NASA should have have held a drawing..pull the names out of a hat...but that would have been too easy, and too smart.

[KarlInOhio]

Why is a *second* Shuttle going to the Smithsonian?

They wanted one which had been flown into space, so they will be giving up the Enterprise (which New York will get). I don't begrudge them getting one because they are the de facto national museum. I have no idea why either New York or Los Angeles were on the list. My choices were the Smithsonian, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, National Museum of the USAF (hey, I wanted one with ten miles of me) and either Houston or Huntsville.

I'm really surprised that Chicago didn't get one.

[Tonytitan]

. The only thing that surprised me was that Chicago did not get an Orbiter

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry would be a great place for one. Right next to the captured German U-505 from WWII.

I wouldn't put it past Zero to order one if not both of the Air Force's new unmanned X-37 mini-shuttles deactivated and displayed in Chicago for no other reason than (insert anti-American justification here).

[seoul62]

Wow, thank you for making this Native New Yorker feel so wanted.

[Tanniker Smith]

Funny thing is that some people in NYC are miffed that we aren't getting a "real" shuttle. We're getting the "fake" one. Hey, it's the Enterprise. I can deal with that.

Anyone with a problem with that, come to New York and walk around the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, like the more than ten million people have before you.

[I cannot think of a name]

Well, obviously since you post here, I wasn't referring to you. And I traveled to Jamestown on business many times in the 80’s and would love to go back there.

If you are a “Native New Yorker” and you are posting on Free Republic, I have to ask this question: Does the phrase “General Custer” have any meaning? I'm pretty sure you're surrounded and badly outnumbered!