No Shuttle for Houston (Austin, Paris: layoffs, college, living)

[jfre81]

I guess we're bored with the shuttle talk if we're going to pile on the Rockets now?

[Queen Palm]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Rather than pride, I might rather call it a false sense of ownership over the space program, leading to the assumption that one of the shuttles would certainly come here. A sense of entitlement, if you might.

I don't think it was false, Jfre. I think Texans rightfully expected that we would receive one. But maybe pride did get in the way. Perhaps the whole "Don't mess with Texas" mantra is too much of chest-pounding attitude...I dunno..... I just don't want something like this or worse happen again, and if it is due to pride we need to make every adjustment to delouse ourselves of it....

[jfre81]

I could do with a lot less of the chest-pounding around here. Apparently we're just as good at kicking and screaming when we don't get our way.

I'm sure the silly secession talk didn't do any favors, nor did the fact that one of Goodhair's buddies isn't in the White House anymore. Say, are people in Chicago blaming Obama because the Adler Planetarium didn't get a shuttle either? But you know what - we don't really need it.

In a sign that the apocalypse must be nigh, I actually agree with Tory Gattis for once. We'd be paying for a display of a shuttle when we already have a Saturn V rocket, which IMO better represents NASA's glory days than the shuttle.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by jfre81

I could do with a lot less of the chest-pounding around here. Apparently we're just as good at kicking and screaming when we don't get our way.

I'm sure the silly secession talk didn't do any favors, nor did the fact that one of Goodhair's buddies isn't in the White House anymore. Say, are people in Chicago blaming Obama because the Adler Planetarium didn't get a shuttle either? But you know what - we don't really need it.

In a sign that the apocalypse must be nigh, I actually agree with Tory Gattis for once. We'd be paying for a display of a shuttle when we already have a Saturn V rocket, which IMO better represents NASA's glory days than the shuttle.

We could at least get a better display for that thing:

Kennedy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/SaturnVcenter.JPG/800px-SaturnVcenter.JPG (broken link)

Huntsville:



Houston:

[jfre81]

And we wonder why we didn't get a shuttle.

[TimBomb]

Originally Posted by jfre81

That's all the entire space program was, not just the Space Shuttle.

This is the attitude I was refering to.
Maybe southerners would understand it better this way. Even a rockstar psycho wrestler would retire someday. At that point in the future, that wrestler's job and his act is done, but he can still go around doing inspirational speeches at schools where his experiences can have a positive impact.
who cares about vietnam and cold wars. It's all just BS, probably better forgotten. The shuttle must represent something else from here on.
The shuttle is not looking for a graveyard, but a retirement home where it can serve its new purpose. houston is just not the place with the target audience.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

The shuttle is not looking for a graveyard, but a retirement home where it can serve its new purpose. houston is just not the place with the target audience.

That has basically been my point all along. Go patronize someone else.

[TimBomb]

Originally Posted by jfre81

That has basically been my point all along. Go patronize someone else.

umm you quoted the wrong line. only the first sentence was for your post

[jfre81]

I quoted the only relevant one.

[l3m]

Saw this on CNN.com today. Excuses. Excuses. Scratch out NY and bring the Enterprise to Texas.

Texas lawmakers: NASA, we have a problem - CNN.com