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The First Soda in Space: When NASA Got Caught Up in the Cola Wars
In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over ...
Veteran of 4 spacecraft, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore retires
Barry “Butch” Wilmore has flown on the space shuttle, a Russian Soyuz, Boeing’s Starliner and a SpaceX Crew Dragon. After 25 ...
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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'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston
The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation.
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OTD In Space - July 26: Space Shuttle Returns To Flight With STS-114
On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia ...
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 ...