Michael Turner: "within a day’s drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."

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within a day’s drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population.

Michael Turner · A letter from Ohio's congressional delegation to NASA · April 30, 2010

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PolitiFact, April 14, 2011 · read the check

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Checked against No agency publishes the share of the U.S. population within a day's drive of a given place; the Census Bureau publishes population by county, but "a day's drive" has no defined distance, so the record cannot be read against it.

The record: County Business Patterns

Context

The letter asked NASA to place a retired space shuttle at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton.

Topics: Space, Tourism.

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Every claim filed under Michael Turner

Sources

Rep. Michael Turner, congressional delegation, say a shuttle in Ohio would be within a day’s drive for 60 percent of Americans · PolitiFact · 2011-04-14 · accessed 2026-09-25
County Business Patterns · U.S. Census Bureau · accessed 2026-10-15

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