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Atlantis Will Retire to Kennedy Space Center  Photo Courtesy NASA April 12, 2011 | WMFE - The Space Shuttle Atlantis will retire to Kennedy Space Center's Visitors Complex when the shuttle program ends later this year. NASA's top official made the announcement Tuesday during an event marking the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight. NASA administrator and former astronaut Charlie Bolden revealed the future homes of the space shuttles to a crowd of about three hundred space workers and local dignitaries at Kennedy Space Center. An emotional Bolden announced the shuttle retirement locations starting with the one most anticipated by the cheering crowd. “First, here at the Kennedy Space Center, where every shuttle mission and so many other historic human space flights have originated, we’ll showcase my old friend, Atlantis.” Bolden added that space shuttle Endeavour will go to the California Science Center, while Discovery will retire to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The Enterprise, a full-scale shuttle test vehicle, will go on display at New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. |
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