to know your comments. nasa has marked the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight by announcing what it will do with the soon to be retired fleet. intrepid will go to the air and sea museum in new york city, and the smithsonian will put discovery on display outside of the smithsonian, and the atlant atlantis will stay at kennedy space center in florida. and in japan, officials say that the disaster at fukushima daiichi is as high as chernobyl. that puts it on par with the 1986 chernobyl disaster in the former soviet union and defines it as the major accident requires long-term countermeasures. an e jep shan army spokesman says that former egyptian president hosni mubarak is in the hospital. no word why, but he is 82 and rumored to be in poor health. he is living in his holiday
into the local economy. new york expected that they would get something like 300,000 visitors every year, and i m sure the numbers at the california science center will be the same for endeavour. i think, you know, one of the big losers in all this, a couple of big losers, the johnson space center in houston did not get a shuttle. and dayton, ohio, the air force museum there, which was thought to be a favorite in the running, did not ultimately get the get a space shuttle. nasa administrator charlie bolden is going to make the official announcement in probably the next 10 to 15 minutes. he s here at the kennedy space center just a few miles from here. a lot of nasa employees are gathered at that location where the announcement will be made, but, you re right, randi, huge impact impacts to the locations that are going to get the space shuttles. randi? john zarella for us with the breaking news. thank you, john. president obama s big
enterprise endeavour which is going to go to the california science center in los angeles. that is a nonprofit organization, private government museum that is going to get the shuttle endeavour. and the final shuttle, atlantis, is coming here, to the kennedy space center, and it will fly the final mission later this summer in the space shuttle program. so, atlantis is coming here. endeavour is going to california. and smithsonian gets discovery and enterprise will go to the intrep intrepid museum, randi? this is like getting a super bowl. this is a boon to tourism for a lot of these communities, right? reporter: for all of those locations. there s no question about it. here they expect at least 200,000 additional visitors every year. $15 million generated and poured
those retiring shuttles? 1 dozens of museums across the country are hoping to get their hands on them and land a piece of space history. john zarella is live at the kennedy space center visitors complex for us today. i understand you have the scoop and you know who is getting a shuttle. reporter: we sure do, and sadly, there aren t enough vehicles to go around, the iconic winged flying vehicles, and they re going to be a lot of places that are disappointed, some that thought for sure they were getting one. and this is what i ve been told by sources at nasa. that the shuttle enterprise which is sitting currently at the smithsonian, it was the very shirs shutt first shuttle, it did drop tests, it s going to the intrepid air and sea museum in new york. endeavou discovery is going to the smithsonian to replace the