Posted on 09/05/2011 5:45:53 PM PDT by kelsiejackson
These days NASA is dismantling the once great shuttles, getting them ready to hang in museums all over the country -- except in the one museum many of us Houstonians think it should be.
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NASA has much higher priorities - like bowing to muslim sl*mes.
Yes, I forgot: the Dear Leader had proclaimed NASA yet another addition to his “interfaith outreach” empire.
ML/NJ
Because it is?
LBJ was a former senator from Texas, and Kennedy’s VP.
Johnson forced it on NASA, but since then, Houston has been at the forefront of manned space flight. History matters.
New York deserved squat in this deal.
LBJ.
It’s ok, pay backs a bit$h, and Texas native Rick Perry taking away Obama’s second term will just abour square things.
From the article:
He awarded the shuttles using a point system that gave no points for connection to space despite its inclusion in the law. But gave 20 percent of all points to international access -- meaning how many international tourists could see the shuttle. That's nowhere in the law.
"He essentially said, 'I care more about foreign tourists than I do about the community who built the shuttle,'" said Rep. Olsen.
Even though we specifically asked why, NASA didn't answer. And on the one chance we had to ask Bolden about it, he pushed us back to Space Center Houston.
"Go back to the folks at home and ask them what they got from their debrief," said Bolden.
They told us they didn't get answers either. In fact, Space Center Houston was never asked how many international visitors they get and two of the winning sites -- New York and California -- don't even record where visitors are from.
NASA awarded points based on the fact that foreigners come to Orlando, New York City and Los Angeles. Space Center Houston says they were never told 10 percent of points would be given for museum accreditation and that they would've gotten it if necessary.
And when it comes to the risk of transporting the shuttle, Houston lost points too. Apparently NASA thinks driving a shuttle eight miles down the road from Kennedy Space Center is just as easy as flying it 1,100 miles to New York City and ferrying it another 14 miles.
Pssst...Houston we have a problem...seems nobody ever said, New York, we have a problem, now did they? Since there wasn’t a scientist one in New York that knew a damned thing about space flight.
Foreigners deciding where the American space administration will distribute American spacecraft in America. Brilliant.
Thanks kelsiejackson.
Umm maybe cause the shuttle will get between 500,000 to 1,000,000 visitors a year in New York City with an additional 1,000,000+ being able to see it without visiting the carrier museum. With all due respect, Houston would be lucky to get 1/4 of that.
They put it on the Intrepid because of all the locations it is the one that likely will reach the most people directly and indirectly.
A Mosque should be built on the former Shuttle launch pads at Cape Canaveral.
They put it on the Intrepid because of all the locations it is the one that likely will vote democrat next election.
That’s an absurd reason for placing anything—if that were the primary concern (never mind that little thing called “history”), EVERYTHING would be in New York. While we’re at it, let’s pick up the Gateway Arch and move it to Newark, since it’ll get way more visitors than it does stuck in St. Louis. Maybe the Grand Canyon, too—freight costs might be a bit steep, but hey! It’s all about the damn tourists, right?
lol — Ramirez is too good.
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