If, like me, you like to pay attention to stupid news, you’ve already noticed the fight over hosting the retired space shuttle Discovery.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York has lobbied VP Joe Biden for one of the shuttles, to be on permanent exhibit at the USS Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum. Other sites in contention include the Tulsa Air and Space Museum in Tulsa, OK.
NASA is set to retire the three shuttles, at a cost of $144 million to refurbish and deliver the shuttles to their destined host sites. NASA, the agency that is about to lay off 900 people over the next five months, is ready to spend $144 million to create some tourist attractions that will benefit, who, exactly? More later.
