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**fetesiceWaist** · 04-18-2011, 03:42 AM

LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr...uston-20110415

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose district includes the Intrepid museum, isn't making any apologies for the win.

"New York City is the greatest city in the world, and locating the space shuttle in New York will allow 45 million annual visitors and 15 million area residents to experience the awesome power of the American space program up close and personal," he said. Not to mention that the museum, as "an actual decommissioned aircraft carrier, already welcomes close to 1 million visitors annually," Nadler said.

Ironically, for all the charges that politics played a role in the selection, half a century ago Houston was chosen as the site of the manned space center because one of their congressmen, Albert Thomas, chaired the appropriations subcommittee that controlled NASA's budget, said John M. Logsdon, a George Washington University professor emeritus who has written about space history.

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fetesiceWaist Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr...uston-20110415 Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose district includes the Intrepid museum, isn't making any apologies for the win. "New York City is the greatest city in the world, and locating the space shuttle in New York will allow 45 million annual visitors and 15 million area residents to experience the awesome power of the American space program up close and personal," he said. Not to mention that the museum, as "an actual decommissioned aircraft carrier, already welcomes close to 1 million visitors annually," Nadler said. Ironically, for all the charges that politics played a role in the selection, half a century ago Houston was chosen as the site of the manned space center because one of their congressmen, Albert Thomas, chaired the appropriations subcommittee that controlled NASA's budget, said John M. Logsdon, a George Washington University professor emeritus who has written about space history.
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