Join the Mission: Help bring the Space Shuttle to Seattle,

[Rich McVey]

The Space Shuttle is set to share stories with future generations. After the official retirement of the NASA Space Shuttle program, we hope to welcome one of three Space Shuttle orbiters to a permanent home in her very own wing of our new Space Gallery–to teach and inspire in perpetuity. You can help make it happen. Join the mission today.

Sign the petition and help bring the shuttle to the Museum of Flight.

Thank You

http://www.museumofflight.org/shuttle-b ... ission.php

Tell You Friends...

[Marc Martyn]

Signed. I'd love to donate, but not right now with the way the economy is going, but that could change.

[Racer]

Signed and crossed fingers.:bounce:

[tnj8222]

Signed and liked it on facebook. Hope it happens. I love it there so does my son.

[reigndawgs]

Signed with pleasure!:)

[Rich McVey]

I've always been a big fan of space and technology.

I hope the space program ramps back up to tell you the truth. The economy wont allow for that now but one day. Commercialization of the program is going to generate a lot of cool designs in the years to come.

[Rich McVey]

NASA will announce Tuesday morning whether Seattle's Museum of Flight will become home to one of the retiring space shuttles.

The announcement will be streamed live on KING5.com at 10 a.m.

[tnj8222]

cool. Hope it happens.

[Rich McVey]

ARGHH............ STUPID NASA.

We do get the "full-fuselage shuttle trainer" though, so we didnt totally get screwed.




Seattle's Museum of Flight will not get a retiring space shuttle once NASA's program ends this summer.

NASA announced the locations Tuesday morning after 21 museums and centers around the country put in bids for the spaceships Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor and Enterprise.

NASA announced the shuttle Atlantis will go to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The California Science Center in Los Angeles will be home to the shuttle Endeavor. And the Discovery will go to a branch of the Smithsonian Institute in northern Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

New York City will be the new home of space shuttle Enterprise, the prototype shuttle used for test flights in the 1970s. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said that Enterprise will go to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Enterprise has been on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

Seattle's Museum of Flight did not get a space shuttle, but the museum announced it will house a full-fuselage space shuttle trainer in its new state-of-the-art, 15,500-square-foot Space Gallery. The space shuttle trainer is the only one of its kind in the world and is the simulator in which every space shuttle astronaut trained for space flight.

"While we are happy for the cities which have been awarded one the retiring space shuttles, we are thrilled to receive the full-fuselage shuttle trainer," said Doug King, Museum of Flight president and CEO. "Not only is it a unique and exciting educational artifact to have as a centerpiece of our Space Gallery, but, unlike the actual shuttles, we will be able to allow the public to walk inside it and actually see where the shuttle astronauts trained."

The Space Gallery is being built on the west side of East Marginal Way and will connect to the main building by the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Bridge.

The announcement Tuesday comes on the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight and the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space.

The shuttle program is winding down with only two more flights left.

[Amx]

What the heck is a 'The California Science Center in Los Angeles'??? Never heard of it.

Stupid NASA!

[Amx]

"While we are happy for the cities which have been awarded one of the retiring space shuttles, we are thrilled to receive the full-fuselage shuttle trainer," said Doug King, Museum of Flight president and CEO"

He is being nice, VERY nice, poor guy.

"...unlike the actual shuttles, we will be able to allow the public to walk inside it and actually see where the shuttle astronauts trained."

BUT, this WILL be good.

[Rich McVey]

Im looking forward to it. The trainer will be cool to go check out.

[YellowBear]

Any idea of where the money came from for the building?
I also understand that it was over 20 mill just for the bid.