Space Shuttles officially given their new homes...

[Suu]

Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Space Shuttle Discovery: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington, DC

Space Shuttle Endeavour: California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA

Space Shuttle Enterprise: USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY



FIELD TRIPS!

[Luna]

Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Space Shuttle Discovery: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington, DC

Space Shuttle Endeavour: California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA

Space Shuttle Enterprise: USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY



FIELD TRIPS!

Oh, yes, very yes.

[Jenne]

Oh fuck yeah!  Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon!  Woohoo!  I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.

[Suu]

Oh fuck yeah!  Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon!  Woohoo!  I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.

Shit, hit Gettysburg while you're at it. It's not too far out of the way.

[Jenne]

Oh fuck yeah!  Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon!  Woohoo!  I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.

Shit, hit Gettysburg while you're at it. It's not too far out of the way.

Ooh, yeah, totally.  I'm thinking if we hit it in June, the weather might not be TOO shitty...but then I hit NOLA in July, so, yeah. 

[Suu]

Might I also suggest Providence? 

[Jenne]

  Yeah, you wouldn't be too far away, huh?  Once I get it all planned out, I'll let fly if I have an evening to go up and visit folks.  That would be awesomesauce.  I did that when we went to Seattle a few years back and met my friend and author, Yasmine Galenorn.

I planted the seed in Himself's brain yesterday or today (disremember which), so we'll see if it takes root.

[Suu]

Actually, Boston/Providence/NYC are kind of their own region compared to the DC/Baltimore area. We're 5-6 hours from Gettysburg on a good day.

[Bruno]

What? Nothing for Huntsville?

[Suu]

What? Nothing for Huntsville?

YOU HAVE YOUR SATURN V!



Same with Houston too, come to think of it.

[Requia ☣]

What? Nothing for Huntsville?

They may get the Vostok still.

[Bruno]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!


(not that I've actually been there in the last twenty years or anything)

[AFK]

Call me crazy, but given incidents from the past, I think they should reserve announcing the final resting spots of the shuttles with remaining missions until they land safely back on Earth for the last time.  Seems like it might be tempting fate just a tad. 

[Suu]

Space Shuttle Challenger: About 3 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral

Space Shuttle Columbia: Strewn across a fair chunk of Texas



...Okay, not cool, I know. But when I lived a 10 year fallout with Challenger, and then having to watch my dad burst into tears with Columbia, it's kinda fucking easy for me to make light of them blowing.

[Kurt Christ]

What? Nothing for Huntsville?

This was my thought as well-Huntsville is a much shorter trip than Kennedy (closest of the four for me).