CAPE CANAVERAL -- Several former astronauts were on hand as NASA opened up its new space shuttle wing at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, celebrating the shuttle's past.
The shuttle exhibit at the wing features all kinds of artifacts, including equipment, letters and old astronaut suits.
The goal of the exhibit was to get an actual shuttle for display.
"It would be terrific," said Daniel LeBlanc, chief operating officer of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. "We've got an example of manned Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft here at the Visitor's Complex. We need a shuttle, too."
"It's a good group of people on the space team," said John Blaha, an inductee to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. "It's a bigger team than the astronauts. You know, without the vehicles that work, we wouldn't fly. So I guess I think of all those people as well."
Four astronauts were set to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during a ceremony Saturday. They are John Blaha and Loren Shriver, Bryan O'Connor, who is now NASA's chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, and Bob Cabana, who is now the center director of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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