“We’re looking for a tomb. Any recommendations?”
The space agency sent a notice this week to museums, schools and similar institutions to gauge their interest and qualifications for properly housing Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour.
The shuttles are to be retired by September 30, 2010, but they won’t be available until about a year later, NASA spokesman Michael Curie said Thursday.
“These are national assets, national treasures and something that NASA feels the public would want to see displayed publicly for years to come,” Curie said.
A tomb? I recommend…
Museum of Flight! Museum of Flight!
I second your suggestion, Charles. It does seem to be the most permanent architectural design.
Hell yeah I wanna sit in the shuttle! Museum of Flight would be awesome. My favorite part of the Science Center when I was a kid was the nose cone of whatever rocket that was. I could’a flipped those switches all day.
When I sent this news story to the Stranger >i>last night I pointed out that the cost of a shuttle (including shipping) is $42 Million! I would love for the Museum of Flight to get one of the shuttles but I don’t want any tax dollars to pay for it.
At least if we had spent the money to fix the Key to keep the Sonics, money would have trickled down to the bars, restaurants, and parking lots in the neighborhood. The same goes for anything that attracts a large amount of tourists to a neighborhood.
But there is no neighborhood near the Museum of Flight and other than a few thousand visitors during the first year of having the shuttle, the money spent on the shuttle would never be recouped.
Yucca Mountain?
$42 million? Bummer. Sucks that tax payers somewhere are going to have to pay top dollar for something they already paid for.
The museum down in McMinnville, Oregon is planning to get the Enterprise after the Smithsonian gets a real one.
42 million pricetag includes the cost of building a giant, climate-controlled house for it, I think.
Stick to these short, 15-words and a picture posts, Charles. Then maybe people will forget what an abhorrent person you are.
Benjamin Harrison High School loved the new addition to its Technology Museum, a Space Shuttle, until a small luminescent ooze began dripping from one of the door seals.
Space Camp USA!!! Somewhere in Alabama?
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian. Or my backyard, where in a fit of uber-geekery I’ll bring a few friends to the ISS for dinner.
club lagoon
Jesus Christ Man, do you care about anything that might actually matter?
You’re still black.
Could they just drop it off at my house? I’ve got a big backyard, and I’ll only charge a quarter for the tour.