[potato3732842]

I've never been to Houston so take the following with a grain of salt:

Is the space center in Houston "terrible" or is it "niche"? Like for a lot of people being able to get up close to a huge portion of the space program hardware even if you're basically doing so in a laydown yard in the Texas heat (which is what Google makes Houston look like) staffed by people who do only space. If it's where all the space stuff is maybe it's where a shuttle belongs?

The Smithsonian is "fine" but it's also a discontinuous and uninspiring "best of" list of exhibits. Basically just the stuff a 12yo will read about in an entry level book or some 10min youtube video will blab about. Like don't get me wrong, they're great and full of cool stuff but basically no item in the whole place is done justice. I am very sympathetic to the idea that a lot of those items deserve to be in locations where they are the crown jewel or part of a theme whereas at the Smithsonian they're "just" another historically groundbreaking aircraft. Like don't get me wrong, it's still really cool but it's just about the least inspiring "serious aviation display" I've been to. I wish they'd have some F-ing enthusiasm and do something that isn't all "government and sterile".

Oh, and to anyone choosing between Downtown and Dulles, go to Dulles.

[LorenDB]

> Oh, and to anyone choosing between Downtown and Dulles, go to Dulles.

Why not just go to both? :)