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Space Shuttle Discovery could return to Texas

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 A bill introduced Thursday could help bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back home to Texas.

“The first word spoken from the moon was ‘Houston.’ To honor that legacy, it’s long overdue for a retired NASA Space Shuttle to rest at Houston’s Johnson Space Center so Texans can see, learn from, and enjoy it for generations,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.  

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The shuttle has been on display in Virginia since April 2012, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian, according to the National Air and Space Museum.

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U.S. Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, filed the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which would allow the shuttle to be moved from the Smithsonian museum to a nonprofit near the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Discovery is the only shuttle still owned by the federal government.

Yes, let's take the shuttle from the Smithsonian and transfer it to some non-profit here in Texas, where it'll probably fall apart in the sun and humidity.

Thankfully it probably won't happen, but fucking A this timeline.

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Only about a decade and a half too late on this grift job. Sure would have been nice to have one of the shuttles in Houston but not at the expense of having on at the Smithsonian. Guessing this won't go anywhere anyway but even if it does how they hell do Rafael Cruz and John Cornyn exactly propose they move the shuttle to Houston? Both of the modified 747 transporter planes are retired and on display, and the one here in Houston has a high-fidelity mockup shuttle already on it and they aint taking that apart...

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NASA botched that by not having a nice place to display it.  That being said, bring the f’ing thing to Houston where it belongs.

My idea was to take the walls off of the Astrodome, plexiglass that thing (or something like that), put the shuttle in there and light it up at night so you can see it from 610.

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27 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Stupid political game when NASA didn't get one of the decommissioned space shuttles to begin with. 

Something something Schumer

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5 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

The first word spoken from the moon was "That's", but facts don't matter anymore.  We have fucking morons in charge.

Or "Contact", depending on where you draw the line in terms of on the moon.  Either way, "Houston" came up much later.

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1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 how they hell do Rafael Cruz and John Cornyn exactly propose they move the shuttle to Houston? Both of the modified 747 transporter planes are retired and on display, and the one here in Houston has a high-fidelity mockup shuttle already on it and they aint taking that apart...

Just tow that sumbitch down I-81 and I-59 down to NASA.  Only 1,389 miles.  

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4 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

I’m a fan of the fully restored Apollo Mission Control myself.

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One of my friends gave me a tour of Mission Control before they restored it.

 

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4 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

I could have sworn I went in there for an elementary school field trip in the mid-90s. Way less appreciative back then. 

I did too.

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50 minutes ago, Updawg said:

I was disappointed we didn’t get one at first but after touring the mockup and 747 I think we came out ahead.

100% Agree, being able to go inside the mockup Shuttle is very cool and they did a good job filling it out with real artifacts like the spacewalk tools and such on the inside. Favorite part of the whole thing is the little RC 747 they have on display that they used to figure out if it was even practical to do the 747 piggyback. 
 

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47 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

I’m a fan of the fully restored Apollo Mission Control myself.

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The mind bottles when you try to imagine all the ass that those engineers were getting.

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3 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

that they used to figure out if it was even practical to do the 747 piggyback. 

There were a few nights at Dallas nightclub back in the day when I definitely spent a long amount of time scoping out a particular prospect to see if it would be practical to do the old "747 piggyback."  Vic Mackey woulda been proud.

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