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Sen. Sherrod Brown
blasts NASA denial of Dayton’s space shuttle bid
By Sabrina Eaton
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:03 PM
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown wants U.S. Government Accountability Office to
investigate the process by which the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration decided to distribute four retired space shuttles to
museums around the country.
Dayton’s National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will not get one of four
retired space shuttles, Brown said. NASA administrator Charles Bolden
is scheduled to announce which facilities will get a shuttle this
afternoon.
“NASA ignored the intent of Congress and the interests of taxpayers,”
Brown said in a press statement. “NASA was directed to consider
regional diversity when determining shuttle locations. Unfortunately,
it looks like regional diversity amounts to which coast you are on, or
which exit you use on I-95. Even more insulting to taxpayers is that
having paid to build the shuttles, they will now be charged to see them
at some sites.”
Brown said Bolden will give the shuttles to the National Air and Space
museum in Washington, and museums in Florida, New York and California.
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