As a born and raised local Daytonian, I'm deeply enraged about the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force not receiving one of the space shuttles. I understand the Smithsonian in Washington DC and Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I just question the motives/reasoning behind the other two locations that won, New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan and California Science Center in Los Angeles. I'm sure their great museums but some cities have more history with flight and space exploration that deserved the shuttles.

I was expecting a thread already created about this topic, since Houston was on the list ("Houston we have a problem").

Just looking for some opinions/input on the topic.

 

It'd probably get stolen if they put one in houston...

 

Smithsonian, ksc and jsc should have been it. Houston is the control center and training for everything, it has had arguably the most to do with space flight.

 

 

hahaha.. that ain't no ****

 

I'm sure the population of the cities picked had something to do with it too for maximum exposure. Also I believe NASA had specific guidlines regarding how they were to be exhibited. Maybe the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force didn't meet some of the requirments?

 

Except it would be out in the 'burbs and mostly lacking the necessary demographics....

Downtown would be a different story.

 

I think Houston should have been right at number two after Florida, then smithsonian, then whatever else.

Maybe cuz I'm texan

 

How big is Houston again?

 

Ummm sugar ****, Houston has one of the biggest metroplexes in the US, not to mention DFW is only a couple hours away as is Austin and San Antonio. Besides the actual population that Houston has surrounding it, Houston is where everything was done for the damn space station.

Scott I know you're not familiar with Houston but the space center is in a nice part of town with a low minority population, ie crime is very low there. Not that a space shuttle is something you can just throw in the bed of a truck