SEATTLE (AP) — SEATTLE (AP) — Officials at Seattle’s Museum of Flight have their fingers crossed, waiting for Tuesday’s announcement of where retiring space shuttles will be displayed.
The museum near Boeing Field is one of 21 museum and science centers around the country hoping to land one of the spaceships. A new building called the Space Gallery is being prepared for the display.
One space shuttle is already spoken for — the Smithsonian Institution is getting Discovery. It will take the place of Enterprise, the shuttle prototype used for tests in the late 1970s.
That frees up Enterprise, along with Endeavour and Atlantis, after their final flights.
The Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston are leading contenders.
