Exactly. I imagine the Kenyan ordered this to take some of the wind out of America’s sails. I imagine that there are some real sickos out there who will want to go see this.
When I went on the KSC tour several years ago, the Apollo 11 display begins outside the doors with a TV screen telling about the flight going to the moon, the doorso open and you go inside to see the diorama with a mannequin in a space suit standing on the moon and such.
As you’re waiting for those doors to open you hear CAPCOM calling Michael Collins in the Command Module, waiting for him to come out from the other side of the moon.... The CM on Apollo 11 was Columbia. They keep calling for “Columbia” but do not get any answer.
All I could think of was 2003 CAPCOM calling to STS Columbia and getting no reply. It was sad.
Also, at the Air and Space Museum, before they swapped Enterprise for Discovery. There was a missing section of the leading edge of wing of Enterprise. I knew immediately why it was taken out.
I couldn’t imagine the reaction I would have to a display of an actual piece of the destroyed Shuttles.
Yep
Some of that is probably what hit about 1/2 mile from my house back when I lived in La.
What purpose does this serve? American Exceptionalism has failed! Or just to poke America in the eye - look America your space program is a disaster and we should be reaching world wide for assistance because other nations are more successful. Like Iran and North Korea success stories so much on militarization they people starve. Iran has no refinery from oil to make gasoline for domestic consumption - all oil is sent out and gasoline is returned. There is way to destroy a country like Iran - disrupt oil exports and petro imports the country would fall flat
It’s a historically significant event. Nothing wrong with a display of it. There’s plenty of museum pieces revolving around people getting killed, including vehicles, clothing, and the weapons that did it.