Failure To Launch? What’s Happening With St. Cloud’s Space Shuttle?

WHERE IS THAT SPACE SHUTTLE?

Many people were excited to hear that a replica of the Space Shuttle was on it's way to St. Cloud thanks to a local inventor, who saw promise in bringing something so awesome to the city of St. Cloud.

ST CLOUD CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

Many of us were hoping to see the Shuttle as a part of the new St. Cloud Children's Museum, which is getting ready to open soon in downtown St. Cloud. Can you imagine? How amazing would it be to be able to walk through a replica of the shuttle?

Lots of us have been looking for signs of the shuttle on the grounds of the new museum, but haven't seen anything. What's happening?

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NO LAUNCH

Apparently, we will not be seing the Space Shuttle replica at the St. Cloud Children's Museum site.

In an interview on KSTP, Inventor Felicity-John Pederson, the individual that had the shuttle brought to St. Cloud no longer owns the replica. It was donated to another non-profit organization.

For now, it remains a mystery if the replica space shuttle will be on display anywhere in the St. Cloud area. You can watch the video of the story below.

KSTP 5 Eyewitness News/YouTube

THE GOOD NEWS

The good news? The much awaited St. Cloud Children's Museum is opening sometime this spring.

SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM

According to NASA.gov, the Space shuttle program gave us 30 years of space excitement, with 135 missions flown from the very first launch that happened back on April 12th of 1981 to the final landing on July 21st of 2011.