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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?
Bid To Relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery Faces Museum Pushback
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 Houston.
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.
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.
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 wrong.”
“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.
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.
Smithsonian digs in against Space Shuttle Discovery move to Texas
It's also unclear whether Congress has the authority to order the Smithsonian to transfer an artifact. "This will be the first time ever in the history of the Smithsonian someone has taken one of their displays and forcibly taken possession of it.
Smithsonian fights $85M plan to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery to Texas
The ridiculously named "One Big Beautiful Bill" signed last month allocates $85 million to transfer a "space vehicle" to "a field center of the Administration that is involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program and "placed on public exhibition at an entity within the Metropolitan Statistical Area where such center is located.
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'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 ...
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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 ...
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Remembering Space Shuttle Discovery, 30 years later
On Aug. 30, 1984, the skies were clear and space shuttle Discovery launched for the first time. Its missions came to represent the resilience of the U.S. space program.
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Space Shuttle Discovery: 5 Surprising Facts About NASA's Oldest ... - Yahoo
The space shuttle Discovery is going on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum just outside Washington, D.C., this week after taking one last flight atop its 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 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 ...