# Why can't we leave the Space Shuttle Atlantis at the ISS?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 12, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-leave-the-space-shuttle-atlantis-at-the-iss/588755 "2011-07-12T15:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-we-leave-the-space-shuttle-atlantis-at-the-iss/588755/21 "2012-03-26T16:17:52Z")

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> [@Washoe](#):
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> You guys are all seriously underestimating the destructive capabilities of bored fifth-graders who are on field trips that they never wanted to go on in the first place. Those orbiters are gonna look like a Lexus parked in Tijuana in no time flat.

Based on how I’ve seen actual historic air and space vehicles displayed at places like the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Space Center, I think it’s highly unlikely that the Orbiters will be displayed in such a way that visitors will be able to casually deface or damage them.

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