Its not as cool as roving in outdoor space, but a organisation of space buffs ready to go as astronauts hopped on the convey to Times Square Thursday to discuss it NASA: "We wish a space shuttle!""I"ve seen them on TV, they"re cool!" pronounced Michael Coyne, a 7-year-old from Croton-on-Hudson who is perplexing to confirm either to be an wanderer - or a paleontologist, or a veterinarian - when he grows up.Michael and his dad, Kevin, put on wanderer suits and rode the S sight with multiform alternative space enthusiasts as piece of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museums bid to land one of the 3 soon-to-be-retired shuttles."Its a great fit for New York City," pronounced Kevin Coyne, a network designer and space nut.Ivy Deliz, 25, of Manhattan, is a Columbia University grad tyro who not long ago interned at NASAs prestigious Ames Research Center in California."I love the shuttle. We all do. Its one of the biggest engineering achievements of the time," she said.Intrepid President Bill White pronounced New York is one of the "top choices" between twenty-one institutions opposed for Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour.Gov. Paterson, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz jumped aboard the bid Thursday."The Intrepid itself is an icon," Paterson said. "Uniting it with the convey ... would only be a undiluted marriage."NASA is approaching to have a preference on where to send the shuttles by July. The last convey mission is slated for subsequent February.NASA officials pronounced they"re disposition toward giving Discovery to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington.sgaskell@nydailynews.com var fo = new FlashObject("http://assets.nydailynews.com/swf/video_player/vp_485_single_04092010.swf", "Video", "485", "350", "8", "#FFFFFF");fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");fo.addParam("quality", "high");fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");fo.addParam("loop", "false");fo.addParam("play", "true");fo.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true");fo.addParam("flashvars", "embedCode=c1MzZjMTpCzdxo1nN8gETgnYQ1TsZUm4"); fo.write("videoPlayer485Single");function displayCompanionBanners(banners) {tmDisplayBanner(banners, "adCompanionBanner", 300, 250);}function hideCompanionBanners(banners) {tmHideBanner("adCompanionBanner");}
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