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Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile. Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — is the subject of a ...

Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The ...

Efforts to move the space shuttle “Discovery” from Northern Virginia to Texas have hit a roadblock.  It looks like the ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian Institution is resisting an effort from Texas lawmakers to transport the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of Mission Control, in a battle framed by the ...

Since 2012, Discovery has been been on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Trump's legislative package, which he signed into law on ...

Two Texas Republicans want to use taxpayer dollars to seize the Space Shuttle Discovery from the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center and move it to Texas. The senators from the Lone Star ...