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| Vol. 4, Issue 5 May 2012 |
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Goings On |
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Food and Rest |
Where Space Shuttles Go to Retire
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Published :1 September 2010 |
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COURTESY: WWW.COLLECTSPACE.COM |
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| Space shuttle Enterprise, on display since 2003 at the Smithsonian’s Stephen F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va, will be replaced on exhibit by Discovery, according to National Air and Space Museum curators.
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| All vehicles go to the junkyards eventually. But there’s a sentiment attached to the space shuttle programme, whose death knell was recently sounded by the Obama administration. So when they stop flying in February 2011, there will be a ravenous host of museums— 20, to be exact—vying to get hold of the shuttles’ carcasses. The Discovery is headed for the Smithsonian, but NASA is doing the bureaucratic immobility thing with the Atlantis and the Endeavour. Even Tulsa, Oklahoma, is playing its bid; it’s a relatively backwoods place, but it’s where one of the shuttle’s payload doors were assembled. Short on space, the Tulsa Air and Space Museum might stand the orbiter vertically.
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