Science | Atlantis Space Shuttle NASA Decides Homes for Retiring Space Shuttles Three museums get Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour By John Johnson Posted Apr 12, 2011 2:13 PM CDT Copied Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2009. (AP Photo/Michael R. Brown, Florida Today) NASA's space shuttle fleet has only two flights left, and the space agency announced today where the shuttles are going for retirement, reports CollectSpace: Atlantis: It stays with NASA and will be parked at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Discovery: It's going to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles airport. Endeavour: It's going to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Twenty-one institutions bid for the shuttles, and the New York Times notes that Museum of Flight in Seattle had already begun construction of a wing to house one of them. Also left out is NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas. “This oversight smacks of a political gesture in an agency that has always served above politics," says local Rep. Pete Olson. Read These Next Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Some of the most explosive Diddy allegations are dropped. Fan who taunted Ketel Marte's mom has been banned by MLB. NJ lifeguard survives after being impaled by an umbrella. Report an error