Manhattan and LA both dwarf Houston in terms of tourism dollars (#1 and #4). Houston doesn't even show up in the top 10 per the Business Journal in 2008: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/s...28/daily8.html

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have one of the Shuttles in Houston and believe that the city deserves it for its contribution to the space program, but it's not a charity, it's a business and the fact of the matter is, Houston does not generate the tourism dollars of LA or NYC.

 

Now days anything is possible haha.


I wonder how much that thing would be in scrap metal. I have a oxy acy torch.

 

Political reasons????

Obama = Democrat
NewYork = Democrat
Califoria = Democrat (Nacny Pelosi)

Texas = Republican
Florida = Republican (normally.....who knows what happend in the last election )

Who knows. Just speculating.

 

This is correct, but tourism dollars from visitors does not equate to total revenue of an attraction. Houston has the population and location to for sure equal if not surpass what Manhattan and LA can do.

 

I was actually referring to why the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force wasn't picked seeing that it's in Dayton Ohio. :

I agree about Houston having done more for the space program than most of the other sites.



How do you figure Houston would equal if not surpass total revenue of LA?

 

I know Dayton isn't the tourist capital of the world, but the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force already draws 1.6 million tourist a year and entry is FREE so the American people, who paid for the original construction of the shuttles, aren't getting charged twice to see their hard earn tax dollars.

There is no questions asked that the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force met and exceeded all criteria set forth by NASA(stated by NASA). Receiving the shuttles should not be about revenue generated by tourist (both future and past). It should be about preserving the shuttles and making them easily accessible to the general public (NATIONAL CITIZENS).

Not sure if people are even familiar with the National Museum of the U.S Air Force. It's basically connected to Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Information about the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
-61 percent of Americans are within a days trip of the location
-Houses more then 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles
-Climate controlled facilities
-Opened in 1922 making it the oldest military aviation museum in the world
-History of restoring artifacts since 1940
-O and it's FREE

 

I was just taking a wild guess, I have absolutely no idea why it wasn't selected.

 

This is why I think it has the ability
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html