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A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback.
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Funds $85M Cross-Country Space Shuttle Move ‘Discovery’ will soon be headed to Houston, home of NASA Mission Control.
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Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.
Texas lawmakers are a step closer to snatching away the National Air and Space Museum's prized space shuttle and moving it from Northern Virginia to Houston.
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More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the president after Sen. Ted Cruz led a Senate amendment to rescue them.
Tucked in the massive spending and tax bill, Texas senators added a provision funding the transport of Space Shuttle Discovery in Virginia to Houston.
The Smithsonian could lose the iconic space shuttle Discovery to Texas as part of President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill. Pictured, astronaut Steve Robinson maneuvers under the shuttle ...
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 ...
Under the cover of darkness Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian An effort to move shuttle Discovery has merged with the One Big Beautiful Bill.