Space shuttle snub sends Houston into orbit

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Space shuttle, Houston: Space City didn't get a space shuttle, and Houston is irate - latimes.com

NASA has denied that politics was a factor in its decision. Sites were selected, a NASA official said, "based on the best value to the American public, including education and outreach as well as domestic and international access."

Texans can't quite understand how Houston, whose ties to the space program extend even to the names of its sports teams, the Astros and Rockets, lost to New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

Houston, "Space City" doesn't get one of the old shuttles?

I smell an Obamrat.

By the way, I'm visiting Houston now, and before today I wasn't sure that a president could be more hated anywhere inside the USA.