Discovery's Final Flight

[curry1]

Can only laugh when you think that the main hub of the space program does not get one of the shuttles.

Some really odd places get one.

Yeah Houston didn't get one but Los Angelos did.  They were built in Palmdale which is close by I guess.

[Babalonian]

My office got a call yesterday that I'll be doing most the work on and I'm pretty excited about getting started on it ASAP. 

The botanist for the CA Science Center remembered us from a past project (a really cool bamboo forest, but anywho) and is requesting our consulting/expertise with designing/engineering the Irrigation for the temporary Endevour display that they're building over there for her at the moment.

 

Yeah Houston didn't get one but Los Angelos did.  They were built in Palmdale which is close by I guess.

O.. K...     don't ditch any more school, kid, seriously.

It's actually Downey, CA (SE corner of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area) - the geographical location you're looking for... you know, my fellow aerospace enthusiast/nut, the BIRTHPLACE of this little stunt called the APOLLO PROGRAM. 

Houston is an extension of central NASA, the entire space agency, and not the JPL or Rockwell (now Boeing) - the direct contractors and research/design/developing agency of the shuttle program within the larger overwatching government agency.

Not that I don't think Houston would of liked to of gotten one, deserved one, or would of done well with it - but to scoff at CA and suggest we don't deserve one over them... really, huh?...  I guess the real tragedy is we're really just a couple shuttles short of how many we were hoping we would ultimately have when this day came. 

I think they would of liked to of had one, but much like I think FedEx would like to put on display a static 737 infront of their world HQ too... it also makes as much sence for them (cost and logistics involved) to do it or not, if you'd take a look at the whole picture.  NASA will be staying based in Houston probably long after even the next genre of space flight, still doing what NASA does, but who knows where and who will build or participate in the design/development/construction/support of that next genre.

Endevour was the last one built, specifically to replace the Challenger, it seems fitting to me that she ultimately come home to where they were all born to rest...

Do you even know what the JPL is or its casual relationship to NASA as a whole?

[curry1]

My office got a call yesterday that I'll be doing most the work on and I'm pretty excited about getting started on it ASAP. 

The botanist for the CA Science Center remembered us from a past project (a really cool bamboo forest, but anywho) and is requesting our consulting/expertise with designing/engineering the Irrigation for the temporary Endevour display that they're building over there for her at the moment.

 
O.. K...     don't ditch any more school, kid, seriously.

It's actually Downey, CA (SE corner of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area) - the geographical location you're looking for... you know, my fellow aerospace enthusiast/nut, the BIRTHPLACE of this little stunt called the APOLLO PROGRAM. 

Houston is an extension of central NASA, the entire space agency, and not the JPL or Rockwell (now Boeing) - the direct contractors and research/design/developing agency of the shuttle program within the larger overwatching government agency.

Not that I don't think Houston would of liked to of gotten one, deserved one, or would of done well with it - but to scoff at CA and suggest we don't deserve one over them... really, huh?...  I guess the real tragedy is we're really just a couple shuttles short of how many we were hoping we would ultimately have when this day came. 

I think they would of liked to of had one, but much like I think FedEx would like to put on display a static 737 infront of their world HQ too... it also makes as much sence for them (cost and logistics involved) to do it or not, if you'd take a look at the whole picture.  NASA will be staying based in Houston probably long after even the next genre of space flight, still doing what NASA does, but who knows where and who will build or participate in the design/development/construction/support of that next genre.

Endevour was the last one built, specifically to replace the Challenger, it seems fitting to me that she ultimately come home to where they were all born to rest...

Do you even know what the JPL is or its casual relationship to NASA as a whole?

Endeavour as long as we are still correcting spelling.  Maybe you shouldn't have skipped so much school  . No I agree with you CA does deserve one as I stated above IIRC all the shuttles were built in Palmdale, CA.  I don't see where I "scoffed" at you socialists or anything like that.  I was just giving my best explanation on why one went to California instead of Texas.  I don't see why Apollo really has anything to do with whether a retired Space Shuttle gets put in CA or not.  But okay.

I assume you are talking about the Jet Propulsion Lab and yes I am aware.

[Shuffler]

They removed the shuttle mock-up from Nasa in Texas night before last. They had to do it in the middle of the night for lighter traffic.

Manned flight..... Houston. It's actually Nassau Bay Texas.

[icepac]

I think the price is 24 million dollars and must prove the ability to display for years without it falling into disrepair.

[Babalonian]

Endeavour as long as we are still correcting spelling.  Maybe you shouldn't have skipped so much school  . No I agree with you CA does deserve one as I stated above IIRC all the shuttles were built in Palmdale, CA.  I don't see where I "scoffed" at you socialists or anything like that.  I was just giving my best explanation on why one went to California instead of Texas.  I don't see why Apollo really has anything to do with whether a retired Space Shuttle gets put in CA or not.  But okay.

I assume you are talking about the Jet Propulsion Lab and yes I am aware.

Sorry, Im overly patriotic of country and state, but you should read up on the history of space exploration/technology in regards to Downey CA, the JPL and Rockwell (before it got bought up).  The Shuttle is kinda the last (or greatest) chapter in those places space legacy and contributions to the space industry.

Rockwell alone lays claim (or did for a very long period of time, once) to some of the biggest and baddest pieces of technology and triumphs of mankind and aerospace engineering.