Bay Area Houston

It’s actually pretty simple.

Shuttle Discovery belongs to the Smithsonian. They received full legal title and ownership from NASA in 2012. Congress appropriated $85 million in the Big Bumbling Bill to move it or at least start thinking about moving it. Unfortunately it’s not theirs to move. Besides the fact that moving this vehicle would require significant logistics and an incredible amount of money, Johnson Space Center doesn’t have a facility to store it and we already have a Shuttle that is much better. From a previous post titled You Might Not Want the Shuttle to be Sent to Houston:

The Woody is a replica of the Shuttle and was housed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was moved here after Kennedy’s winning bid to secure a Shuttle. Woody sits on top of a 747 at Space Center Houston and is actually a very interesting exhibit. You can walk through the bay, look into the cockpit, and actually touch it unlike the other ones.

Unlike the Woody, all of the shuttles are for display only. You can’t walk in it. You touch it. You can’t walk in the bay. What we have is actually better. Kids who come to see the Shuttle don’t know it’s not a real shuttle and they don’t care. This idea of moving the Shuttle to Houston is nothing more than a $85 Million political ad by Senator Cornyn trying to save his seat from being taken by Ken Paxton.

It’s not coming to Houston. It’s a sick, costly gimmick by Cornyn. Instead of funding TSA they are wasting money on a stupid, unnecessary project.

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