April 12, 2011 08:05 pm
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NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet
PyroMosh writes "NASA administrator Charles Bolden just announced the final homes for the four remaining Space Shuttle Orbiters in a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center today commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first Shuttle launch.The Shuttle Atlantis will remain at NASA's home of Shuttle Launch operations — Kennedy Space Center.Endeavour will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, just miles from where she was assembled.Discovery will be moved to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum in Virginia outside of Washington DC — the very hangar that Enterprise now occupies.Finally, the Shuttle airframe prototype Enterprise will be moved from her current home to the U.S.S. Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum in New York City."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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