Re: after the next accident...

<Haller chicken little nonsense snipped>

Please don't feed Bob. He's killfiled around here for a reason by
nearly everyone. For the last 7+ years this is all he does is whine and
cry about the shuttle. Before Columbia he would whine that each and
every mission was going to be the one to blow up. He's like an insane
man at your local airport screaming at you to not get on a plane
because this'll be the *one* to crash for *sure*! Eventually when the
shuttle is retired, he'll just latch onto CEV or Dreamchaser or
whatever else replaces it. When one of those vehicles suffers a
catastrophic accident, he'll cry about how he was the only one who knew
all along that it was going to happen.
-Mike

that would make a nice exhibit, but let's hope it doesn't happen right
away.

Manned space will likely be gutted from NASA.

That leaves pads 39 A & B with no futher use.

I think they should be made into nice permanent exhibits.

Return 39B to the appearance of the apollo era, and stack a full model
of a saturn 5 in launch configuration. Build large plexiglass bubble
over entire structure, and do the same for the other pad stacking a
left over tank, solids less ful and enterprise.

both vehicles can be left straing to go somewhere

Open both pads for tours, something thats never been available to the
general public. Turn the VAB into a museum too, and while there at it
build a memorial to Apoolo one at the pad and return the capsule to its
post fire condition and exhibit it in a small proper way.

this would help the local economy thru tourism,.

the government should offere big bucks for other private companies
space operations