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Bid to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback
The push to move Discovery from the Air and Space Museum's site in northern Virginia began in April, when Texas Senator John Cornyn, a Republican who faces a tough primary challenge next year by state attorney general Ken Paxton,
'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston
The provision in Trump's bill allocates $85 million for Discovery's transfer and directs NASA and the Smithsonian to develop a plan for its completion. At least $5 million of that sum is earmarked specifically for the vehicle's relocation; the rest is meant for the construction of a new facility that can publicly display the shuttle.
The fight to keep space shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate it to Houston.
Texas senators want to move space shuttle Discovery to Houston. The Smithsonian is fighting back.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave NASA Administrator Sean Duffy until Sunday to identify a space vehicle to rehome. Will space shuttle Discovery come to Houston?
Trump's signing of 'One Big Beautiful Bill' includes $85 million to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas
Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national collection to Space Center Houston.
Smithsonian digs in against Space Shuttle Discovery move to Texas
The Smithsonian Institution is digging in against a proposal to move the shuttle to Houston - part of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed earlier this summer.
Smithsonian pushes back against moving Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston
According to reports from Space.com, the Smithsonian says it owns the Discovery and holds it in a trust for the American public.
Smithsonian museum slams Trump's plan to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery
Tucked inside Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic Space Shuttle Discovery.
“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian
A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback.
Shuttle Discovery’s Texas transfer launches cost concerns
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn argues moving the shuttle to a site near Houston's Johnson Space Center would right an "egregious ...
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Bid to relocate space shuttle Discovery faces pushback by museum
The push to move Discovery from the Air and Space Museum’s site in northern Virginia began in April, when Texas Senator John ...
On This Day: Astronauts carry out first emergency repair spacewalk
On Aug. 3, 2005, in the first emergency repair conducted in space, astronauts fixed a potentially dangerous problem by ...
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Space Shuttle Discovery by the Numbers: 27 Years as NASA's Space ...
NASA's space shuttle Discovery may be hanging up its wings after one last mission, but it will leave a long legacy of performance in orbit that will be a challenge for any future spacecraft to match ...
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Space Shuttle Discovery Blasts Off - CBS News
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construction mission cut short by launch delays that dragged on for more than a ...
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Here's the "big, beautiful bill"'s $300 million pet project that few noticed
Texas Republicans scored a little-known win in Trump's " big beautiful bill ": the transfer of the iconic Space Shuttle ...
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Space Shuttle Program Fast Facts
Here’s a look at NASA’s Space Shuttle Program which ended in 2011 after 135 missions. Facts The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a ...