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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
Liar.
The decision was made for Bolden (one suspect the WH here), then Bolden made up the point system to fit.
It's so easy to see, and it doesn't even take a "rocket scientist".
One also suspects that Texans will not forget this, at all, ever .
Look I am as interested in history as anyone and I do agree that Houston probably deserved a shuttle but you have to look at this logically and not emotionally.
All of the shuttles are property of the United States taxpayer (albeit under care of the US Government). When deciding to place objects such as this, the amount of public visitation is a concern. It is not the only concern but it is important.
Shuttles were placed at several locations with direct ties to the program but which will receive relatively little public visitation. New York provided an opportunity to balance that with a location which will draw incredible amounts of visitors (many of whom are taxpayers and thus owners of those resources).
The Saint louis Arch is a rather silly example since there is only one and historically it is tied to one location and one location only (The Gateway to the West). The shuttles (plural) do not have the same historic cachet and provenance.
Space Center Houston is the Official Visitors Center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which is the home of astronaut training and Mission Control.
Would it not be in line with historical rolls of the city that all tour directors must be sent to Huston for training and the opening and closing of the exhibits in the the various state should be controlled from Houston. When you walk up to one of the exhibits that you push a button to here a tape about what your are looking at it could be a live feed from Huston.
I disagree, and see no need in engaging you further. The administration already has a sufficient number of apologists: thanks for being yet another.
Oh let’s see.
Nasa’s astronaut training center is in Houston.
Ellington Field is a Nasa base.
Mission control in at Nasa Houston.
South Houston and the surrounding community has lots of astronauts in training.
LOTS of local businesses trade on the image of the space shuttle and of astronauts.
Lots of businesses are affected by the number of people employed at Nasa.
There is a local bar/grill that is a favorite hangout of future space travellers.
Johnson space center has lots of artifacts from previous space missions.
The mission control station from the early apollo days is set aside as a museum for visitors to see.
Ok, now for New York’s contributions to the space program.
I’m waiting.
This is nothing but a contiuation of baraq’s targeting our state. First, he transferred the manufacturing of military trucks from a non union plant in Sealy that had been making trucks for years to a union plant in Wisconsin that had never manufactured this truck. Then he screwed the offshore drilling industry with his drillatorium. Next he ignored the wildfires in our state. Federal help? Ha fat chance.
This snub was just another finger in our eye. OK fine, there kenya boy. We get the message
baraq has a special dark place in his heart for the State of Texas. He rates us somewhere around the place of Isreal.
What’s really sick about all this is that an acting president is actively targeting certain states for punitive actions. Guess he meant what he said about rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies.
Where should it be and why?
Has anyone heard the latest on the Space X F9 re-supply trip to the International Space Station? Supposed to be this year.
http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php
Dayton, Huntsville, Biloxi and Provo all have more legitimate claims to a shuttle than New York.
Who gives a rip about anything “federal” anymore? The fewer ties and obligations we have even the less they can control or bind us.
We should immediately give back all the education, Medicaid and highway money and just hold back on our meager contributions. Then we should fire up the refineries, tell them to kiss our backsides for drilling, make the corporate tax rate to ZERO, place all social security “disability” checks into a pool for distributions ever 2 weeks, and place state toll roads on the border to Mexico with the toll for all sea, air and land traffic to come to the calculated sum of the costs of illegals in our state.
We might have a tough couple of years but the new business would offset the parasites in a couple of years
“Ok, now for New York’s contributions to the space program.
I’m waiting.”
A popular saying in Texas 30 something years ago still applies as far as I am concerned.
“Let the bastards {in NY} freeze in the dark.
We’re in the central time zone.
Garden State reasoning on display!
The Garden State...runner up to the Porta John state.
It is the Chicago way
Screw New York. This shuttle belongs in Texas. They didn’t bleed and cry when Columbia blew up during reentry. Texans did. Ordinary citizens were out there trying to help, hunting down pieces.
I still have my t-shirt, their mission became our mission. One of the big recovery installations was the NASA Scientific Balloon Base in Palestine, Texas. We heard the booms, saw the debris across our skies.
Our ties to the shuttle are deep and long. New York has none of that, NONE and those yankee critters don’t deserve it. Keep your fancy crap up there. We don’t care, but the Space Shuttle was part of our makeup and in our Texas blood. Odummer can go to hell along with Rangle and all those all yankee bastards.
NASA decided to send Discovery to the Smithsonian in Washington,
Endeavour to California Science Center in Los Angeles,
Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City,
Atlantis will stay at the Kennedy Space Center.
>>> 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.
Exactly. There are only so many shuttles to pass around. The distribution of the shuttles is reasonable on it’s face, even if other fair options were also available. With the number of craft available somebody would be left out and upset no matter how they were disposed.
>>> Screw New York. This shuttle belongs in Texas
If it helps the Enterprise sent to NYC is not an actual shuttle. It was simply a stripped down prototype for gliding tests off a 747. It never flew in space. NYC got the runt of the litter.
>>> The administration already has a sufficient number of apologists: thanks for being yet another.
There are bigger fish to fry. Knee-jerk responses are unimpressive. It devalues the effect when opposition is necessary on matters of actual substance.
And they're gonna put it on the exposed weather flight deck because it won't fit in the hanger deck ... so guess how many years in NY weather will it take to completely corrode the thing ????
Actually, I believe when the sensor on one of the lunar module legs contacted the lunar surface, the first words were by Aldrin when he said/confirmed, "Contact light."
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