Originally Posted by RACER X (Post 520207)

another really cool pic i was forwarded

gonna try and crop and blow this one up

Originally Posted by rangerscott (Post 520224)

you terrorist.

Originally Posted by derf (Post 520185)

If Columbia hadnt been destroyed it would most likely have gone to Houston. If Challenger hadnt been destroyed chances are it would have gone somewhere in the norther midwest, probably somewhere like Chicago.

Houston should have gotten a shuttle, but at the end of the day there were just too few for them to get one. I will fall back on my earlier statement that the Shuttles were given to the locations that would give them maximum exposure in the major population centers in the US.

http://www.mapofusa.net/us-population-map.gif

Houston while a cool place, and also historically important to the shuttle and teh space program as a whole just isnt a large enough population center or tourist destination.