Homework - New York might get a Space Shuttle!

Click HERE to watch the video. Read the story. Answer the questions.

Story:

Manhattan, NY (4/7/2010) - The Intrepid Museum is looking to land a space shuttle on Manhattan's West Side and is turning to the public for help.

Nearly 45,000 people have signed the museum's petition to ask NASA to bring one of their retiring space shuttles to New York, where it would be put beside the Intrepid.

NASA is retiring the shuttles Discovery, Endeavor and Atlantis and will make them available to different institutions throughout the country.

Bill White, the president of the Intrepid Museum, says the signatures on the petition come from all over the world.

He says they will send the petition to NASA once they have gathered 50,000 signatures.

Questions:

1) Where did this story take place?

2) When did this story take place?

3) What is the name of the museum that is trying to get one of the space shuttles?

4) How many shuttles is NASA retiring?

5) What are the names of the shuttles that are being retired?

6) How many signatures does the museum want to get on their petition?

Info and video from NY1. Pic from goldenstate.wordpress.com (google image)