Udvar-Hazy Slated to Lose the Discovery Spacecraft

[Anonymous]

If true, I wonder what it could be replaced with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If true, I wonder what it could be replaced with?

Maybe Trump plans to pull the shuttle from NYC and move it back to DC as a way of poking NYC in the eye? He might justify doing so because the Enterprise was the prototype shuttle and more people would see it in DC. It was only put in NYC in 2012.

Enterprise was previously displayed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to it being donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1985. Before arriving at the Intrepid, Enterprise was exhibited at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia for eight years. It was moved to New York City after shuttle Discovery inherited its place in the National Collection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) how do they even move it there? The NASA 747 transporter aircraft is already in the Davis Monthan boneyard.

2) it makes more sense for a shuttle to be in Houston (rather than DC or NYC) because at least Houston, California and Florida were all crucial to the shuttle program. DC? NYC? Nope.

1) Cruz added $85 million to move it.

2) The Air and Space museum is in Washington

3) Why allow private museum in Texas to steal from the US government?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) how do they even move it there? The NASA 747 transporter aircraft is already in the Davis Monthan boneyard.

2) it makes more sense for a shuttle to be in Houston (rather than DC or NYC) because at least Houston, California and Florida were all crucial to the shuttle program. DC? NYC? Nope.

1) Cruz added $85 million to move it.

2) The Air and Space museum is in Washington

3) Why allow private museum in Texas to steal from the US government?

Because a R from Texas has been bought by some donor to do this.

Doesn't really matter that much anyhow, the days of the US having a functioning space program are apparently over now

[Anonymous]

U.S. taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to pay millions of dollars to move an American artifact from a free public museum to a private museum that will charge admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) how do they even move it there? The NASA 747 transporter aircraft is already in the Davis Monthan boneyard.

2) it makes more sense for a shuttle to be in Houston (rather than DC or NYC) because at least Houston, California and Florida were all crucial to the shuttle program. DC? NYC? Nope.

It’s not in DC or NYC. And Space Center Houston already has a full scale replica shuttle. Why do we need to spend $300-$400 million on this?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/02/smithsonian-shuttle-to-texas-in-gop-spending-and-tax-bill/84447730007/

The Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Annex at Dulles is essentially DC. Hair-splitting only makes you look stupid.

The space shuttle Enterprise is in NYC aboard the Intrepid aircraft carrier museum on the Hudson River.


So yes, there are shuttles on display in DC and NYC.


And neither city has any really meaningful connection to the shuttle program. I’m sorry your obstinance and hatred of anything Trump keeps you from seeing that. I hate Trump more than you do, I guarantee, but I don’t let it cloud my judgment and force me into ridiculous indefensible positions like you are allowing.


The shuttles belong in places relevant to the shuttle program.

California
Texas
Florida
Alabama

Except for it being, you know, the seat of Government. AND that it is an AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM. Are you always this dumb?

Apparently I’m a lot smarter than you, because I understand the shuttle program. All you understand is insulting people who make you feel inadequate.

[Anonymous]

Why was there even a shuttle in NYC at all?

NYC has zero to do either the space program AND doesn’t have the National Air and Space Museum.


So why was a shuttle even sent to NYC to begin with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If true, I wonder what it could be replaced with?

Maybe Trump plans to pull the shuttle from NYC and move it back to DC as a way of poking NYC in the eye? He might justify doing so because the Enterprise was the prototype shuttle and more people would see it in DC. It was only put in NYC in 2012.

Enterprise was previously displayed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to it being donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1985. Before arriving at the Intrepid, Enterprise was exhibited at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia for eight years. It was moved to New York City after shuttle Discovery inherited its place in the National Collection.

It would be a LOT easier to move Enterprise, since all you’d have to do is get a crane alongside the ship and lift it up and put it on a barge for the trip to Houston. It would make the whole journey by sea.

Moving Discovery would be orders of magnitude more difficult.

[Anonymous]

Outrageous waste of money that should be spent removing farm laborers.