{mosads}Houston coveted one of four retiring space shuttles because of the city’s long ties to the space program. NASA central command is located in Houston, the city is nicknamed the “Space City” and most of its sports teams have space-themed names, such as the Astros, Rockets and Comets.
But NASA decided this spring to give shuttles to museums in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Florida, leaving Houston out in the cold — and red hot about it.
“Disappointed that the #spaceshuttle will not go to Houston’s JSC,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), whose district includes parts of Houston, said on her Twitter page the day the decision was announced, referring to Johnson Space Center.
“We are the home of human space flight,” she said.