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Houston, We Have a Problem: Texas Rep Outraged by NASA Shuttle Snub
Fox News ^ | April 17, 2011 | Beth Sullivan

Posted on 04/17/2011 7:32:02 PM PDT by jazusamo

Congressman Ted Poe is demanding answers from NASA. The Texas Republican says he was shocked to hear that Houston was denied one of the four retired space shuttles.

On Tuesday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Atlantis will go to Florida, Endeavour will be sent to California and Discovery was awarded to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport.

The prototype orbiter Enterprise, which was used for testing but never flew in space, will be sent to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

"NASA made a mistake," Poe said during a Sunday interview with Fox News. "People understand the center of space exploration is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It has been for almost 50 years. It is a historical snub, if you will, to take the shuttle and put it somewhere else."

Poe added that sending Enterprise to New York was "like putting the Statue of Liberty in Omaha."

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: nasa; obama; shuttle; spaceshuttle; texas
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Texas has a good gripe, New York has no connection to the shuttle.
1 posted on 04/17/2011 7:32:11 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Texas didn’t vote for Obama and NY did.


2 posted on 04/17/2011 7:34:07 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Exactly, and that’s what it’s all about.


3 posted on 04/17/2011 7:36:11 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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4 posted on 04/17/2011 7:36:57 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Yep. It is part of Obama’s War on Texas (and any other state that defies him).


5 posted on 04/17/2011 7:39:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: jazusamo

I’m surprised that one didn’t go to Chicago.


6 posted on 04/17/2011 7:46:14 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: jazusamo

Whenever a mishap occurred aboard a US space mission, it never was “Cape Canaveral, we have a problem.” Houston was in the middle of it. However, people remember the launch sites. Houston’s legacy goes way back — doesn’t it have any retired craft?


7 posted on 04/17/2011 7:50:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: CMailBag

Correct, I’ll bet he would have loved to have sent one to his pal Rahm.


8 posted on 04/17/2011 7:51:51 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
I agree whole hearted with the Representative. Houston is the home city of manned space flight. FL has the launch facilities. DC has the Smithsonian. Ohio also desperately wanted one for the Write Paterson Museum in Dayton (That's where the little green men from Rosswell, NM are located, allegedly) Houston was screwed. NYC doesn't need it and has NO connection to anything to do with space flight.
9 posted on 04/17/2011 7:56:06 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: jazusamo
I agree whole hearted with the Representative. Houston is the home city of manned space flight. FL has the launch facilities. DC has the Smithsonian. Ohio also desperately wanted one for the Write Paterson Museum in Dayton (That's where the little green men from Rosswell, NM are located, allegedly) Houston was screwed. NYC doesn't need it and has NO connection to anything to do with space flight.
10 posted on 04/17/2011 7:56:06 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I don’t know if they have any but they surely must have something.

My Dad was in the space industry in So California when LBJ channeled mission control to Houston and the industry there was ticked.


11 posted on 04/17/2011 8:00:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Hopefully soon we will be reading the headline “Ted Poe punches Schumer in the nose”. And I will applaud.


12 posted on 04/17/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT by texaschick
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To: texaschick

LOL! I sure hope so, it’ll make my day!


13 posted on 04/17/2011 8:05:10 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

And ticked for good reason. Huge amounts of money was spent so that LBJ could move the jobs from California and Florida to Houston which up to then had nothing to do with the space industry other than LBJ being president (and a stinking one at that). It was and is a bad and very expensive joke. If Houston isn’t happy about it they should show some class and ask the jobs to move back where they came from (and never should have left).


14 posted on 04/17/2011 8:08:06 PM PDT by tbd108 (Go honest money!)
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To: jazusamo; Jack Hydrazine

Precisely. Democrats are all politics all the time, and this crowd of radicals all associated with Chicago, and the Chicago way of doing things are a step beyond the all politics all the time with their wink and nod, and scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours ethos.

Something about representing the people is missing with this crowd.


15 posted on 04/17/2011 8:15:03 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: jazusamo

Even Shelia Jack-Lee’s letter to Obama wasn’t enough to get Houston an orbiter.


16 posted on 04/17/2011 8:17:09 PM PDT by deport
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To: jazusamo

I thought Texas already got the space shuttle Columbia.


17 posted on 04/17/2011 8:17:43 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: jazusamo

Look, NASA’s new mission, according to its head, is to make Muslims feel good about themselves. Putting a shuttle in Houston wouldn’t do anything to forward that goal.


18 posted on 04/17/2011 8:18:32 PM PDT by Sloth (If a tax cut constitutes "spending" then every time I don't rob a bank should count as a "desposit.")
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To: tbd108

I agree they were ticked for good reason and it was terribly expensive for much of the industry to relocate. I’ve said for many years LBJ was the biggest crook that’s ever been President. That was many years ago though and I believe Texas has a legitimate gripe on this.


19 posted on 04/17/2011 8:23:38 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Reminds me a little of admiral Rickover's break with the
tradition of naming submarines for fish and naming them for
cities. When criticized he responded with “fish don't vote”.
20 posted on 04/17/2011 8:25:02 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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