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The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be up in the air.
Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic Space Shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...
The Space Shuttle Discovery doesn’t seem poised to boldly go… anywhere. The Smithsonian Institution is digging in against a proposal to move the shuttle to Houston — part of President Donald ...
In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy.
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn argues moving the shuttle to a site near Houston's Johnson Space Center would right an "egregious wrong.” ...
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution is resisting an effort from Texas lawmakers to transport the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of Mission Control, in a ...
When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from northern Virginia to Houston.
Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.
Texas lawmakers are a step closer to snatching away the National Air and Space Museum's prized space shuttle and moving it from Northern Virginia to Houston. A provision tucked into the massive ...
Relocating the Space Shuttle to Houston is not only pricey, it could also damage the iconic spacecraft.