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The Intrepid Needs You!

greatkazoointrepid.jpg The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's campaign for a space shuttle is still going strong! And tomorrow, you can join them in solidarity. They're "inviting New Yorkers to publicly show their passion for space exploration. Please join us—dressed up as your favorite space themed character—as we ride the S train shuttle from Grand Central Terminal to Times Square." Can't argue with their fervor, a retired space shuttle would be a lot cooler than the subway shuttle.

If you're game, this all goes down at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, with costumed enthusiasts meeting on Track 4 (near the 42nd and Vanderbilt entrance). If you see any astronauts, martians, or Trekkies... please send us photos (or tag them "Gothamist" on Flickr). And if you aren't game, maybe this video plea after the jump will get you on board. (And psst: we hear Paterson, Quinn, Stringer and Markowitz will all be there.)

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  • dani9818

    I am all for space exploration, but how does bringing a perfectly good space shuttle to New York benefit the exploration of space. And besides, I think bringing anything retired from Florida might affect the space time continuum.

  • Spirit of 76

    What else are they going to do with it? Nobody else will put up the half billion dollars it takes to launch each mission, even if it's still "perfectly good." Which it isn't. Your average cell phone has far more computing power than the main computers onboard the shuttles. Most of the shuttle technology dates back almost 40 years.

  • Gotham Extremist

    have bloomie make the call to NASA, if they don't budge, have him take out his fat wallet and smack the guy in charge with some spanking new benjamins.

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