Ohio museum bypassed for space shuttle retirement

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Ohio has been bypassed in the competition to become home to one of the nation’s space shuttles.

Hundreds of people in Dayton watched the announcement live from Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. There were scattered groans as the last shuttle was awarded to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Shuttles also were awarded to museums in Los Angeles, suburban Washington and Cape Canaveral, Fla.

NASA announced the new locations for the retired orbiters on the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle launch. Twenty-one museums and visitor centers put in bids for the spaceships.

Dayton calls itself the birthplace of aviation. It’s the hometown of the Wright brothers.