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[i]To showcase the role of Palmdale and the Antelope Valley in America's manned space program, city officials want to establish a space shuttle museum. The space shuttle fleet is slated to be retired in 2010, and the city wants to provide a home to one of the orbiters near Air Force Plant 42, where all six shuttles were built. "We are working to bring one home to where they were built," Mayor Jim Ledford said. "There's only four of them. We would take any one." As part of the effort, the City Council on Wednesday approved an application to acquire space shuttle artifacts warehoused at Plant 42. Items include shuttle insignia designs, flags flown in space signed by astronauts, and an escape module, Ledford said. The city also has discussed its plans with officials at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, which displays Enterprise, the first shuttle built for testing purposes, at a museum center in suburban Virginia.[/i]
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