Houston Possible Home for Space Shuttle

I could not care less.

The last time I went to JSC was in 2000 taking some out of town relatives. lot's of people crying about losing out on a tourist attraction.

 

There is much more to this than it just being a "tourist attraction"

JSC helped shape this city into what it is today and it's global accomplishments should be rewarded.

I haven't even visited JSC in years either but the city of Houston deserved this.

No JSC=No Houston Rockets

 

It would have been some other name for the team.

 

Not true.



Maybe no Astros but I don't give a flip about them

 

Well had JSC not been here they would of more than likely given us a cool name like the Thunder.........

 

speaking of space...anybody gonna go see Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson tomorrow at UH? i'm pretty excited

 

because new york has more tourists

 

Its all we got.

Houston is probably the only major city to not have any tourist attractions (lets be real here, we got nothing).

But thanks to NASA, we got an identity. We are SPACE CITY. Its "Houston, we have a problem," not "New York, we have a problem" or "LA, we have a problem." IT IS HOUSTON.

When people outside of Houston think of Houston, the first thing that comes to their mind is Space City. NASA. This is what we are about. This is our identity.

When people visit Houston, one thing which is always on their list of places to go/things to see is JSC. And having a shuttle there would've make it better. I would've gone to check it out.

This is ridiculous. We got robbed. Now, the only attraction we got are great strip clubs.

 

Exactly; thanks. There's no sense in campaigning in landslide territories, for or against.

 

This was more of a thank you. It also is a easy way to b**** slap a red state when they have a chance.

 

We got EarthQuest coming soon. And Galveston is getting something. Little by little, Houston is adding attractions. Having a space shuttle would just be really nice, but we got the ultimate snub on that one.

 

What are the consequences of not getting one of the shuttles? Job cuts at JSC?

 

Nope. Because of politics. The Intrepid in NYC is like the 15th most visited museum there and receives much less visitors than the JSC does.

 

How are you so sure about earthquest?

I haven't seen many updates recently and the ones I do see if I remember were talking about scaling the park down and needing more financial support.

 

It isn't even an argument. JSC can tell the whole story around the space shuttle to give context.

 

They didn't scale down the park. They are building it in phases instead. They were at first trying to build the theme park, hotel, waterpark, EarthWalk, and some commercial development all at once. Investors were not really going with that, so instead it will be in phases. The theme park and hotel in one, the waterpark/EarthWalk, and commercial development in the second, etc. Investors are already there and were named in the articles talking about EarthQuest. Once Exxon officially announces their new corporate campus at I-45/Hardy Toll Road in Spring later on this month, I believe a new EarthQuest announcement will follow. Both places were holding off until The Grand Parkway is for sure going to be built.

 

Mission Control was a gift in and of itself. Probably could have run it out of an Army base or MIT or something, but I imagine having both a Speaker and Senate Majority Leader from Texas at the time didn't hurt.

 

This was the last update I remember reading back in February: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/zones/7407991.html

 

So the state's Senators and Reps did not lobby hard enough for the shuttle or does not have enough influence in Congress?

 

They might have been a little busy doing other things.


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