“NASA” selects to move the shuttle, in what is clearly not a dying grasp of a politician trying to stay elected.
zanhecht on
“The acting Administrator has made an identification. We have no further public statement at this time,” she said in a statement to SpaceNews. She confirmed that NASA was not naming the vehicle it selected or its destination.
KidKilobyte on
Eventually anything of worth will be shipped to blue States. Can’t seem to remember, but there was some party a long time ago obsessed with appropriating and moving pieces of art…
I_am_Relic on
I’m not American so apologies if this question comes across as pretty stupid.
I’m genuinely curious to know why this move costs so much.
I mean would it essentially be slapping the shuttle on a big-arse truck and have a “wide load convoy” drive it to Houston?
Even including the cranes to pop it on a flatbed, and logistical planning, it surely wouldn’t cost millions?
Educate me. I’m totally ignorant and working on “logic and assumptions”. Let me know what I’m missing here.
PuddleCrank on
300 million is peanuts. It’ll tear up the roads, require a specially created vehicle, and building an entire hanger to house the thing. This will take years and at least a billion dollars. All to rob our nation’s capital.
If anyone at NASA has balls, they will red tape this to Kingdom Come. Make it the most expensive move ever. It’s it easy to go over budget at NASA why would this be an exception.
kmoonster on
NASA gave up the titles/deeds to these, did they not? Don’t they belong to the individual museums now?
Or are they only on loan?
Dear_Natural6370 on
That $$$ would have best used to for… Texas flooding like providing monetary assistance to flood victims, building flood prevention system, building actual flood engineering, and more.. but no.. that $300 million is going to just.. move the entire shuttle to Houston.. is that the REAL priority right now?
ntgco on
Sciact – NASA’s science education mission was funded for 5 years…..for $50M total.
SciAct was deleted in the current budget.
You could have funded SCIACT for 25+ years for the cost of moving this shuttle.
bigredthesnorer on
This administration is just freakin hypocritical and ridiculous in their attempts to ‘save’ money and then waste money.
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“NASA” selects to move the shuttle, in what is clearly not a dying grasp of a politician trying to stay elected.
“The acting Administrator has made an identification. We have no further public statement at this time,” she said in a statement to SpaceNews. She confirmed that NASA was not naming the vehicle it selected or its destination.
Eventually anything of worth will be shipped to blue States. Can’t seem to remember, but there was some party a long time ago obsessed with appropriating and moving pieces of art…
I’m not American so apologies if this question comes across as pretty stupid.
I’m genuinely curious to know why this move costs so much.
I mean would it essentially be slapping the shuttle on a big-arse truck and have a “wide load convoy” drive it to Houston?
Even including the cranes to pop it on a flatbed, and logistical planning, it surely wouldn’t cost millions?
Educate me. I’m totally ignorant and working on “logic and assumptions”. Let me know what I’m missing here.
300 million is peanuts. It’ll tear up the roads, require a specially created vehicle, and building an entire hanger to house the thing. This will take years and at least a billion dollars. All to rob our nation’s capital.
If anyone at NASA has balls, they will red tape this to Kingdom Come. Make it the most expensive move ever. It’s it easy to go over budget at NASA why would this be an exception.
NASA gave up the titles/deeds to these, did they not? Don’t they belong to the individual museums now?
Or are they only on loan?
That $$$ would have best used to for… Texas flooding like providing monetary assistance to flood victims, building flood prevention system, building actual flood engineering, and more.. but no.. that $300 million is going to just.. move the entire shuttle to Houston.. is that the REAL priority right now?
Sciact – NASA’s science education mission was funded for 5 years…..for $50M total.
SciAct was deleted in the current budget.
You could have funded SCIACT for 25+ years for the cost of moving this shuttle.
This administration is just freakin hypocritical and ridiculous in their attempts to ‘save’ money and then waste money.