The space shuttle era is scheduled to end next year, and museums and other sites around the country have begun jockeying to get one of the three remaining shuttles to display.
The National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D. C., is odds on favorite to get one of them, but there are several contenders for the other two. A Florida group that includes Bob Crippen, the pilot of the very first shuttle flight, has organized to argue that one shuttle should be on display at Kennedy Space Center, for instance. The KSC Visitors Center is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Florida.
Of course, if the Obama administration decides to extend the shuttle program to cut down on the gap betweem the last shuttle flight and the first Orion flight, the fight for a shuttle to display might go on for an extra year or more. We can only hope that, whenever the program ends, there are still three shuttles to distribute.
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