Where Shuttles go after they Retire

NASA.Gov has release the final resting place of four shuttle orbiters.

At the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program - Shuttle Enterprise will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. Discovery will reside at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Endeavour, which is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

Complete NASA article here

Burt Rutan to Retire!

According to the L.A. Times via Boing Boing, aviation pioneer Burt Rutan is retiring at 67. Rutan designed the Voyager, which was the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling, and SpaceShipOne, the first private rocket plane ever to put a man into low Earth orbit. In fact Richard Branson, the British billionaire behind Virgin Galactic is using Rutan's rocket design for the spacecraft Branson will use to take tourists on sub orbital flights.

For more on Rutan, check out the LA Time article here or with Wiki article here