Texas Congressmen Press NASA for Documents on Shuttle Display Venues

Why are Texas Republicans concerned now with Education and our space program, obviously being ranked 46th in Education, wanting to cut the Department of Education and with Governor Perry cutting $4 Billion in Education, its evident that this is just pandering for votes.

It's such a pity Houston politicians waited until *now* to realize they had to actually take action to get a Shuttle, and that it wouldn't merely be handed to them on a silver platter. It's too late now, and you shouldn' t need any special extra documents to tell why; it's plain as day. They didn't raise the minimum funds needed for consideration, they didn't identify a suitable site, and they didn't submit a plan for indoor display and conservation of the vehicle. It's like forgetting to fill out an application and then complaining that McDonald's didn't hire you.

They have a Saturn V sitting on the front lawn of Johnson Space Center that has gone to crap, why should they be allowed to have a shuttle sit on the front lawn and go to crap also?

Lets say this if education was a priority they wouldn't have cut billions of dollars every year in Texas on education right.

Of course the selection was partly political. Why do you think the Johnson space flight center is in Texas? Political maybe? Too bad for Texas that the decision did not come up when Bush was king. Stop whining.

Through military bases and in it's heyday NASA, Texas has gotten more than their share of American tax dollars. Did it ever dawn on you that the Johnson Space Center should have been built next to Cal-Tech in the first place. The only reason it ended up in Dallas (not exactly the scientific center of the country in 1965) was because Johnson was in the White House.

Your Governor is Rick Perry! For crying out loud you are embarrassing the rest of the country.

Texas is a wasteland when it comes to education or educated people (and I don't mean religion either).

I'd like to see the Texas congressional delegation act like adults for a change and make an effort to get Houston's horrible traffic congestion improved by a dramatic expansion of mass transit insterad of toll roads.

they want the space shuttles to be tourist attractions.....Texas is not attractive unless u like lackluster sports teams or enjoy owning a arsenal of guns

I can see why the Texans are moaning about the selection for display sites.
The Enterprise should NEVER be displayed with anything that has to do with the Intrepid,
Also, the last thing New York needs is less parking, I would think that the J C Stenis facility would have been a better option than New York.

Yet, if you don't do your paperwork, this is the kind of crap that happens.

tea-axisans, whine sniffle whimper, where my shuttle daddy! I want my shuttle! shut up you little brat and get to work.

Texans don't care about the knowledge gained from the Space Shuttles. They just like feeling superior to the rest of the world by having a maned space flight program.

I say the people of america should cry out to the idiot digbats who think they know best but all they think of is how much monies they will make from you and I to stuff their greedy idea of making monies off the space program. I mean please. We'll be lucky if we make as much monies as we did when their were nations around the world paying us millions of dollars to bring their satelites up into orbit. Repair their ailing satelites and the millions the science fields paid astronauts to do their experiments in space. Breaking up the fleet was the most idiotic, dimwitted and just plain stupid idea from our as usual not thinking of the AMERICAN people democrat who think ending the shuttle program would help pay down the debt they increased our national debt by. And then they feel that didn't do it so now we have to fire AGAIN upwards of 40% of our active duty military force. A dimwitted thing to do seeings like in the past and on bills watch we have iran behaving like a bully in the school yard daring us to defend ourselves from whatever they might toss our way. And like in the past we have americans given permission to visit family there taken hostage and held on trumped up charges so they can get some rich shek to give them millions. Americans kidnapped and brought to iran for a bogus trial so they again can get millions from a shek because all irans revenue is gifted to hezbollah so their people have nothing even though iran has the largest amount of oil and natural gas among the nations who have the energies. Some one tell the dems there is no such animal as a peaceful one as long as the human race has islam as a cult living among it. Tell the idot dimwitted dems that we didn't need to end the shuttle program when it was making monies for it's missions. The only place those vehicles belong is in the kenneday space center ready for a mission. Not collecting dust and deteriorating do to lack of use and care. Put the fleet back together and do it one better. Fit the enterprise for a trip so we can finally see our vote mattered. I remember my senior yr like it was yesterday when nasa ran a name the shuttle contest and we all wanted the first shuttle to FLY IN SPACE. And wham our hearts were dash to find out it never will. that was disheartening. And an act that should be rethought. These are our legacy they deserve to function until they are replaced. Dems should never have ended our space program for the delusion that private companies would work to design vehicles and devices that interchange among them. It's delusional to the point of mental to think a private company would design their product around the idea of anotherand expect that company wouldn't sue for infringment rights. WE WERE THE LEADERS OF THE SPACE RACE, PROGRAM AND WE SHOULD REGAIN THE LEAD AND STAY THERE. If dems don't want to be involved no problem they don't have to be and we won't allow them to steal revenue fromt he program for pork projects like do flies blink.

Endeavor went to the California Science Center, not the "California Space Center".

Minor clarification to my last post -- the article claims Space Center Houston planned to display the Orbiter in a climate-controlled environment. They had to do more than that; they had to submit specific plans. A large part of the application process was merely proving that they could reasonably be ready to receive the Orbiter in time, and that eliminated many of the contenders immediately. Including Houston.

Houston, you have a problem. The Johnson space center is more a playground for kids shooting rubber balls with air cannons than a museum. The Saturn V display is very poor when compared to the Kennedy Space Center.

Houston has jobs, jobs, jobs.... they are carrying the other major cities and States. Working Californians and wealthy Mexicans who own companies are moving to Houston. LOL, at the clowns on the blogs below. Go freeze in the dark!

uh tea-axis got there shuttle, is scattered all over the west tea-axis parrie, go find it and put it back toghter morons.

Where is Sheila Jackson Lee in all this? Oh, of course... she supports Obama and Bolden not her supporters in Houston.