Nasa announces US museums to receive space shuttles

Nasa is to accelerate three retired amplitude shuttles to museums in California, Florida and burghal Washington.Discovery active to the Air and Amplitude Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, Atlantis to Florida's Kennedy Amplitude Center, and Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.Also, the ancestor Enterprise, which never flew in space, goes to the Intrepid building in New York City.Nasa ambassador Charles Bolden said ceremony shuttle had "stories to tell".Take acceptable affliction of our vehicles," said Mr Bolden, a above astronaut who flew four times on the shuttle.They accept served you well.Twenty-one institutions about the country approved the retired craft, but at a commemoration with shuttle agents in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Mr Bolden quipped Nasa had alone four to go round.In January 1986, the Challenger burst during launch, killing all seven aggregation aboard. The Columbia, the aboriginal shuttle anytime to fly into space, was destroyed while abutting landing in 2003, additionally killing the seven aggregation members.The advertisement in Florida came on the 30th ceremony of the aboriginal amplitude shuttle flight and on the 50th ceremony of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin acceptable the aboriginal animal to apogee the earth.