Future astronaut Emily D'Arcy, 10, right, meets her hero retired astronaut Bonnie Dunbar at the Museum of Flight before an announcement that the museum would not be receiving a retired space shuttle Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Seattle. D'Arcy, who hopes to pilot a next-generation of spacecraft one day, was among about 200 guests and staff who attended the announcement at the museum. Shuttles will be going to the Smithsonian Institution, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Seattle museum will be given the full-fuselage shuttle trainer. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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