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Houston has been a HUGE part of the space program from the beginning. New York??? Eh, not so much.

Chuck is a knucklehead.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...er_says_f.html

Star wars: Rep calls for Houston to get NASA shuttle, not Intrepid; Schumer says 'Fugheddaboutit'

BY Richard Sisk
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Friday, April 15th 2011, 12:47 PM

The space shuttle Enterprise is coming to New York - unless a group of lawmakers get their way.

A peeved Utah Congressman, joined by a bunch of poor-loser Texans, is mounting a campaign to yank the NASA shuttle Enterprise from the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) pushed a bill that would reshuffle the deck on where the four retired space shuttles will go.

Under his plan, New York's loss would be Houston's gain.

"I am seeking to restore common sense and fairness to the Space Shuttle retirement home debate," Chaffetz said. "Instead of relying on political guidance systems, these decisions must be steered by history and logic."

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had this reply: "Fughgeddaboutit."

"When people from Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Amsterdam start saying they want to go to Houston, maybe then they'll get a shuttle," Schumer told the Daily News. "I'd say to Texas, don't mess with New York."

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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.

[GEAntonio]

This is one time I agree with Brad. One time. I think Houston should get a space shuttle -- Florida, California, Texas and Washington D.C.