Houston's Created Its Own Problem: The Unnecessary Fight To Snatch Up The Discovery Space Shuttle Continues

If there is a custody battle to be had, the Smithsonian has it locked down.
The Spokesman-Review

Trump’s tax bill would send an iconic Smithsonian spacecraft to Texas

The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum could lose the iconic Discovery space shuttle to Houston if a pair of Texas senators get their way. President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill ...
SpaceNews

Senators spar over plans to move shuttle Discovery

The Space Shuttle Discovery is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — A provision in ...
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Texas senators want to move space shuttle Discovery to Houston. The Smithsonian is fighting back.

The fate of space shuttle Discovery remains in limbo as NASA approaches an important deadline outlined in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This legislation gave acting NASA ...
The Business Journals

Move the Discovery space shuttle to Texas? Not so fast, Air and Space Museum chief says

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The space shuttle has been at ...
Gizmodo

Texas Senators Want to Chop Up Space Shuttle Discovery

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn want to bring it to Texas. Reading time 3 minutes The ...
The New York Times

Discovery Space Shuttle

A Soviet cosmonaut, he spent 362 days in flight on three missions. He returned 18 years later on a U.S. shuttle to the Mir space station. By Sam Roberts Mr. Hartsfield, who logged 483 hours in space, ...