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Clearly the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is a fitting place for one of the decommissions shuttles to reside. So why move it? Endeavor is located in Califor
by andrewla 1y ago
Clearly the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is a fitting place for one of the decommissions shuttles to reside. So why move it?
Endeavor is located in California (at the California Science Center) and Enterprise is located in New York (at the Intrepid Museum). They should steal one of those and take it to Houston; not Discovery.
As a New Yorker I have a conflict of interest here, but I would favor moving Endeavor anyway since Enterprise is a fake shuttle that never went to space.
- ceejayoz 1y agoEndeavor is in the county that built (https://www.energy.gov/etec/downey-facility https://www.energy.gov/etec/downey-facility) the Space Shuttles. They've got as much claim as Houston, and Houston already has a high-fidelity replica and one of the two 747s.
- andrewla 1y agoFair enough. Then maybe they should take Enterprise, though I think they'd be happier with their current replica than a dummy trainer.
- elil17 1y agoHouston already has an amazing replica shuttle that you can go inside and explore. Why do they need to spend hundreds of millions to dollars to steal another one?
- rtkwe 1y agoEndeavor has a whole building being built around it it's not moving anywhere. https://californiasciencecenter.org/about-us/samuel-oschin-air-and-space-center/go-for-stack https://californiasciencecenter.org/about-us/samuel-oschin-a...