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Seattle's space shuttle trainer getting new parts this weekend

Lindsay Lowe

NASA is making a special delivery to Seattle this weekend. If you go to the Museum of Flight on Saturday morning, you’ll see one of the world’s biggest…

Retired astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, left, and Museum of Flight board chairman Kevin Callaghan unveil in Seattle a rendering of a full-fuselage shuttle trainer that the museum will receive.

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NASA to turn over keys to Seattle's shuttle trainer Thursday

The Associated Press

NASA plans to officially turn over the keys to a full-size Space Shuttle trainer to Seattle's Museum of Flight on Thursday morning.The ownership transfer…

NASA's Full Fuselage Shuttle Trainer will be the centerpiece for The Museum of Flight's new Space Gallery, since Seattle is not getting one of the four actual space shuttles that are retiring. The Museum says the FFST is one of a kind in the world.

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Seattle's Museum of Flight says no shuttle is sad, but they're getting the next-best thing

Bellamy Pailthorp

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-963091.mp3It's a day of disappointment in the northwest for fans of US space…

Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in February of this year. Seattle's Museum of Flight's hopes to display one of the retiring shuttles were spoiled in favor of New York, Washington, D.C. and suburban Los Angeles.

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Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get a space shuttle

The Associated Press

NASA says Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get to display one of the retiring space shuttles.The museum near Boeing Field was one of 21 museum and science…

An artist's rendering of the new gallery plan at Seattle's Museum of Flight, a gallery intended to permanently lure a NASA Space Shuttle. The agency will announce the winners of the competition to host the retiring spacecraft Tuesday at 10am PST.

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Museum of Flight a hopeful contender for Tuesday's space shuttle decision

Bellamy Pailthorp

The odds are about one in seven. That's the skinny on Seattle's bid to become a host site for one of NASA's retiring space shuttles. Seattle Times writer…

Space shuttle Discovery is towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility after landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, March 9, 2011.

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State delegation wants space shuttle to land in Seattle

Paula Wissel

In a bipartisan push to bring the retired Space Shuttle to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington's U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell,…