Comment Re:meh perfect (Score 1) 30
I mean there's plenty of museum exhibits in LA that feature our contributions to unmanned space flight as well. For instance at this very same museum there is a full sized engineering mockup of the Cassini probe. I think the Griffith Observatory used to have a full sized mockup of Voyager as well but I don't think its there any more. In any case manned space flight has always captured the public's imagination a lot more than unmanned flight has, with maybe a few exceptions like Hubble and Webb telescopes.
Also "Ironic that L.A. wonks...." do you also include in that the Florida wonks, and the D.C. wonks, and the New York wonks, and the Houston wonks who all have or wanted an orbiter of their own and or have other manned rockets like the huge Saturn V exhibit at Kennedy?