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Brown, Turner leading effort to bring space shuttle to Air Force museum

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By Jack Torry, Staff Writer Updated 11:31 AM Tuesday, February 8, 2011

WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown and Rep. Mike Turner are leading a new effort to urge NASA to donate one of its retired space shuttles to the national Air Force museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

In a letter to be sent today to NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Turner, R-Centerville, and Brown, D-Ohio, write that the museum “provides a premier venue to showcase the shuttle.’’

“Public visibility and accessibility are key benefits to placing the orbiter at the Air Force’s national museum,’’ Turner and Brown write.

“The museum has the world’s best aviation preservationists,’’ the lawmakers write. “No other museum in the world matches the knowledge and resources needed to preserve an orbiter.’’

The letter was signed by every member of the state’s congressional delegation except House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland. Kucinich could sign it today.

As speaker, Boehner is expected to minimize signing delegation letters but supports “Dayton’s bid to land a retired shuttle and has made clear to NASA the benefits of locating an orbiter’’ at the museum, said Cory Fritz, a spokesman.

NASA is expected to announce as early as this summer where the shuttles will go.

Discovery has been promised to the Smithsonian in Washington. WPAFB, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and Johnson Space Center in Houston are vying for two others.

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