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.
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.
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?
We’re in the central time zone.