Ohio’s congressional delegation has made the same request, in repeated letters to the White House and NASA.
NASA has promised the orbiter Discovery to the Smithsonian Institution, leaving the fate of shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour to be decided. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has said he will announce on April 12 where the shuttles are to go.
Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget allocates $14 million to prepare and deliver Atlantis to the Air Force Museum, located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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