Tulsa Not Chosen to House Retired Space Shuttle
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa is not one of the cities chosen by NASA to house a space shuttle after the fleet is retired later this year. Twenty-one museums and visitor centers were in the running to house either the Enterprise, Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour and officials learned Tuesday that Tulsa is not one of the four locations chosen. The Tulsa Air and Space Museum had put in a bid for one of the shuttles and had hoped to be awarded the Enterprise. The Enterprise was the first prototype shuttle and will be sent to New York City. The other three shuttles are going to the Smithsonian Institution for its branch in northern Virginia, the California Science Center in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.