Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

Both Texas Senators introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would move the Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to the ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax County for ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

Ted Cruz introduced the Bring Space Shuttle Discovery Home Act ... Station from its inaugural run in 1980 through its final flight in 2011. Throughout those years, every single flight was run ...

The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It flew its final flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport.

Cornyn and Cruz filed the bill the bring the shuttle home to NASA's Mission Control, which led all the space shuttle flights in the ... Space Shuttle Discovery went to the Smithsonian's National ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece ... needs new engines and would have to be recertified to return to flight. Moving Discovery by land would require a tremendous ...

The shuttle is currently located at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia ...