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Discovery, space shuttle and Texas

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?
Smithsonian digs in against Space Shuttle Discovery move to Texas
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 Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed earlier this summer.
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.”
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 Cornyn, a Republican who faces a tough primary challenge next year by state attorney general Ken Paxton, introduced the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act,” naming 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.
'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.
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.
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.
New $1 coin honors Texas, NASA’s Johnson Space Center
The coin, part of a series called the American Innovation $1 Coin Program, was created for Texas and NASA’s mission control.
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Smithsonian would lose space shuttle to Texas under GOP bill
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 ...
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum may lose Discovery shuttle - wusa9.com
Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn have long advocated for the return of the Discovery to where it was commanded, in an area they called "an entity" near the Johnson Space Center.
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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 ...