John Cornyn und Ted Cruz wollen ein NASA -Space -Shuttle nach Houston verlegen. Lohnt sich der riskante Schritt?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/move-space-shuttle-discovery-houston-20287189.php
John Cornyn und Ted Cruz wollen ein NASA -Space -Shuttle nach Houston verlegen. Lohnt sich der riskante Schritt?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/space/article/move-space-shuttle-discovery-houston-20287189.php
14 Kommentare
Is this the fraud and waste DOGE is trying to find??
My tax dollars at work. Are they positive this is the best use of our time and money? Is everything important taken care of. Im sure you could get some AI photos of you standing in front of stuff for your campaign much cheaper!
I’m in favor of the move, as long as the shuttle can be parked directly on top of Cruz.
Couldn’t that money be better spent on more tax breaks for the 1%?
They want to steal it from its current museum, the air and space museum at Dulles. It’s a really great museum and you should see the shuttle there.
Which one of them has a cousin in the moving business?
No. No it isn’t.
The sheer cost of the move is staggering. You’re talking about lugging a space shuttle over American highways from Dulles VA to Houston (which already has a shuttle mockup) so Ted Cruz can stroke his ego. The shuttle cannot be disassembled. There is no way to make it a more manageable size or shape without damaging it.
Not to mention you’re completely destroying an entire exhibit at Udvar Hazy that’s almost exclusively centered around the shuttle to bring it to Houston which has nowhere to display it. It’s already been restored and preserved, a process that would have to be repeated after the transportation. There’s about a million things that could go wrong leading to the damage or destruction of original material on the oldest surviving fully functional space shuttle.
It’ll then be dropped into a city almost nobody visits instead of remaining in a federal museum next to an international airport that feeds tourists into one of the most heavily trafficked cities in U.S. which happens to be our nation’s capitol. Did I mention that Udvar gets roughly 3 million visitors a year vs Houston’s 1 million. I can FUCKING GUARANTEE Moving the space shuttle will not up the tourism to Houston so you’re wasting billions just to give people less reasons to go spend money at the air and space museum.
Ted Cruz should focus on maybe one of the thousands of social issues in Houston instead of attempting to plunder the air and space museum of its priceless artifacts.
I mean for fuck’s sake can’t he just go after a Mercury or an Apollo capsule or something? At least then you could fit it on a truck.
Those two she be dropped in the center of the Gulf of Mexico and made to swim back
How will they fund it? Oh right they expect the Smithsonian to foot the bill lmao
If it goes to Texas it’ll turn into that buran they found in a warehouse covered in dirt and debris
I’m genuinely on my hands and knees praying that this doesn’t pass.
I’m hoping that the republicans are nationalist enough to keep the shuttle in DC and not stupid enough to rush a 90-day dash to Houston that would involve disassembling miles of roadway infrastructure or tearing apart the oldest and most historically significant shuttle.
If it does I at least hope the Smithsonian would try to get enterprise back but moving any space shuttle is just a bad idea in the current year.
How about furthering our space program now rather than living off the past
„John Cornyn and Ted Cruz“
Nightmare blunt rotation.
No, next question. This isn’t even worth talking about
Did a shuttle ever even launch or land there!?!? I get its Mission Control but there has to be better more deserving places than Houston