One of the things I'm going to really miss about Florida is watching the space shuttle launch from my front yard. Of course by the end of the year there won't be any more shuttle launches to watch anyway.  This is Atlantis' last mission.  Then it will be put in a museum somewhere.  There was an article about the selection process for museums in the paper today.  Apparently you have to apply and make a good case for why you deserve a space shuttle, and pay the $28 million dollars it will cost to prepare it for exhibition and transport it.  Some places on the list: National Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, the flight control center in Houston, the space flight center in Huntsville Alabama, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, and an aircraft carrier in New York that was responsible for retrieving the early astronauts from the Apollo missions.

Personally, the National Air and Space museum should be obvious,  the Kennedy Space Center, I'm not really sure about, they already have a replica on display, but should be a front-runner.  I think there should be one in Houston.  That way they would be in a variety of areas across the country, in places that people would expect to them to be.