The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

DALLAS -- The Smithsonian could lose the iconic space shuttle Discovery to Texas as part of President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill. The Senate narrowly passed Trump's "Big Beautiful ...

Three U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “illegal lobbying” to block Discovery ...

The saga of the Great Space Shuttle Relocation has taken another turn after US lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to ...

When President Donald Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law at the White House on July 4, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.

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 ...

On November 2, 2000, the International Space Station welcomed its first long-term residents: NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most ...