By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The days of space flight may be over for the Discovery, but dreams that the decommissioned shuttle might make its retirement home on the Hudson River are still alive.
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum was still "very much in the race" to receive one of three space shuttles closing out their careers this year, President Susan Marenoff-Zausner confirmed Wednesday.
In addition to the Discovery (which touched down at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday), NASA is searching for a good home for the Endeavour and Atlantis. The agency will announce the decisions on April 12.
Between now and then, the Intrepid would keep adding signatures to its 150,000 name long online petition, Marenoff-Zausner said.
The museum would also keep working alongside elected officials, including Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, to assure NASA that "no city in the world can compete with NYC to perpetuate, protect, preserve and promote the legacy of NASA and the Shuttle," Marenoff-Zausner said.
The museum has been campaigning for the shuttle since early 2010.
