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Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave NASA Administrator Sean Duffy until Sunday to identify a space vehicle to rehome. Will ...
The provision in Trump's bill allocates $85 million for Discovery's transfer and directs NASA and the Smithsonian to develop ...
According to reports from Space.com, the Smithsonian says it owns the Discovery and holds it in a trust for the American ...
Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate ...
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn argues moving the shuttle to a site near Houston's Johnson Space Center would right an "egregious ...
A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback.
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 shuttle was part of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which ran from 1981 to 2011. The provision was criticized by the Smithsonian and others because of the cost and potential for damage of ...
The Discovery space shuttle was first brought to D.C. to be housed by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on April 17, 2012. It was seen riding piggyback on a 747 airplane.
Moving Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston may cost $325M, mostly for a new facility at Space Center Houston, Smithsonian's breakdown shows.