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Within six months of touching down from a 434-day orbital mission in March, Boeing’s X-37B spaceplane is back in action.
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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.
Learn about NASA's Space Shuttle, a revolutionary reusable spacecraft. Know about its key findings, its role in building the International Space Station, and why the space shuttle program was ...
The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from northern Virginia to Houston.
The Space Shuttle Discovery would move to Texas under President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, according to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Cornyn’s office said in a statement on his ...
The GOP spending and tax bill would move the Space Shuttle Discovery from its current home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex, the Udvar-Hazy Center, in Virginia to the ...
The Space Shuttle’s iconic design (including the image displayed on the new $1 coins) frequently featured not just the shuttle itself, but its large external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.