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Topic: Fate of the space shuttle orbiter flags
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Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-28-2010 06:56 PM
   
What is going to happen to the shuttle flags when the shuttles are retired? Are they going to go with the shuttles to their places of display? |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 06-28-2010 08:08 PM
I would bet that the shuttle flag that flies at Kennedy Space Center goes with each shuttle. I believe each NASA center has a set of flags that they fly when a mission is up. I know that they even had a flag for Shuttle/Mir that they flew when an astronaut was on Mir. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-28-2010 08:25 PM
Kennedy Space Center alone flies multiple shuttle flags. A flag is flown at the pad, over the perimeter guard house. Another is flown over the press site, on the flag pole near the countdown clock. Yet another flag is flown in front of the headquarters building. During the countdown to the STS-132 launch, an Atlantis flag was displayed over the Launch Control Center (LCC), suspended from the roof's railing. Johnson Space Center flies a shuttle flag over the headquarters building (Building 1). I believe another flies over Mission Control. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-28-2010 09:34 PM
So would at least one go with the shuttle and the rest would stay at their respective centers? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-28-2010 09:53 PM
My guess is that it's too early for the orbiter flags' fate to have been decided.That said, I don't think its unreasonable to believe that if a museum selected to receive an orbiter requested a flag to outfit its display, NASA would accommodate that request. |
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