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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.
The provision in Trump's bill allocates $85 million for Discovery's transfer and directs NASA and the Smithsonian to develop ...
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate ...
On Aug. 3, 2005, in the first emergency repair conducted in space, astronauts fixed a potentially dangerous problem by ...
The push to move Discovery from the Air and Space Museum’s site in northern Virginia began in April, when Texas Senator John ...
Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave NASA Administrator Sean Duffy until Sunday to identify a space vehicle to rehome. Will ...
The Smithsonian Institution is digging in against a proposal to move the shuttle to Houston - part of President Donald ...
"Discovery's ready, the weather's beautiful, America is ready to return the space shuttle to flight. So good luck and Godspeed, Discovery," launch director Mike Leinbach said just before liftoff.
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 ...
Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion ...
— -- Space shuttle Discovery swooped down out of the heavens to a safe landing in Florida Saturday morning, ending a two-week mission notable as one of the smoothest and most flawless in ...