where does the shuttle belong? hou or ny

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Don't I know it! A shit-ton of them came from Avro

Wasn't Avro the company that was supposedly working on a flying saucer

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Wasn't Avro the company that was supposedly working on a flying saucer

The Avrocar. They also developed the most advanced fighter of their time; the Arrow.

[Adeptus_Minor]

I say some other city with significance to the space program. (nothing comes to mind right now, but that's my vote)

Houston already has rockets and other space program attractions, and those had to be massively restored a few years back due to environmental damage.
Houston gets hurricanes, floods, and other disasters that make it an unsuitable place to store a piece of history.

New York... well... shit, they already have everything else, don't they?
Seriously.
I realize the logic behind placing items of significance in cultural centers, but doesn't the term "putting all your eggs in one basket" come to mind?
One little disaster and ...all gone.

And LA? Same thing... Why we keep anything we value in LA is beyond me.

[Papa_Complex]

There's something in LA of cultural or historic significance?

[derf]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

There's something in LA of cultural or historic significance?

Yes, that's where we keep the circus attractions, paris hilton, sheen, lohan, tara reid, those people

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

I realize the logic behind placing items of significance in cultural centers, but doesn't the term "putting all your eggs in one basket" come to mind?

Why the hell do you think we keep Tony Orlando and Dawn, in Branson Missouri?

Two words dude; National Fucking Security.

The fucking is silent.

JC

[Looni2ns]

All I can say is that when things happened, and they needed help, the astronauts sure as hell didn't say, "NY, we have a problem."

They trained the astronauts. They ran the missions. Houston deserves a shuttle.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Trip

The engineers back then in NASA were the best in the industry. The government wasn't afraid to throw real cash at a problem and get an actual working solution back then.

Now our plan is throw a little cash at a problem, get a shitty non working partial solution and have the contractor ask for more money to finish that solution. The government gives this money, the contractor rides this cash as long as they can and then bolts for the door and then the government has to fork out a huge amount of money to another contractor who will end up finally giving the government a working solution, although a crappy one.

That is what they have been trained to do. The government tendency (regardless of party) to demand a bunch of something as soon as possible only to pay late as hell and ultimately cancel the program has put a number of companies out of business or make them ripe takeover/acquisition targets. There is a reason Boeing owns a huge portion of the American aerospace industry.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Don't I know it! A shit-ton of them came from Avro

The Nazis also helped our recruitment.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

The Nazis also helped our recruitment.

Yup, they sure did.