![]() (Photo: Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum) In addition, heat shield tiles will be offered to interested schools and universities.Īn artist's concept of the prototype shuttle Endeavour on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. The Museum of Flight in Seattle, which bid for one of the space shuttles, will receive a full fuselage shuttle trainer and the National Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, another unsuccessful applicant, will display a crew compartment trainer and nose cap assembly.įlight deck commander and pilot seats will be displayed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston while orbital maneuvering system rocket engines will be sent to the U.S. Shuttle simulators will be displayed at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum of McMinnville, Ore., and Texas A&M's Aerospace Engineering Department. Other shuttle artifacts will be displayed at museums across the country. will get Enterprise, our prototype orbiter that tested the aerodynamics of the craft before it flew into space." And New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, will get Discovery, our most traveled orbiter. "The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. "The California Science Center in Los Angeles, only a few miles from the site of the old Rockwell (International) plant where the shuttle was developed and from where its construction was managed, will be the new home for the shuttle on the launch pad, preparing for its final mission, Endeavour. The shuttle Atlantis, which will remain at the Kennedy Space Center, is visible in the background. ![]() NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announces where the agency's shuttles will be displayed. "Not only will the workers who sent it into space so many times have a chance to still see it, the millions of visitors who come here every year to learn more about space and to be a part of the excitement of exploration will be able to see what is still a great rarity, an actual flown space vehicle. "First, here at the Kennedy Space Center where every shuttle mission and so many other historic human space flights have originated, we'll showcase my old friend, Atlantis," Bolden said, standing on a podium in front of Atlantis' open processing hangar. The shuttle Atlantis will remain at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a final flight in late June while the Endeavour, awaiting launch April 29 on a space station resupply mission, will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Udvar-Hazy Center.Īn artist's concept of the shuttle Atlantis on display at the Kennedy Space Center. Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight on April 12, 1981, Bolden said the shuttle Discovery, NASA's senior orbiter, will be displayed near Washington at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL-Ending months of suspense, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Tuesday announced the winners of a national competition to display the agency's three space shuttles after the fleet is retired and decommissioned later this year, choosing sites in Florida, California and, as expected, the Washington, D.C., area.
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