Texas lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how the Smithsonian allegedly objected to relocating a space shuttle it ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave NASA Administrator Sean Duffy until Sunday to identify a space vehicle to rehome. Will ...

Sen. John Cornyn has requested the Smithsonian Institution conduct an internal investigation for "a potential violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act." ...

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to ...

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be ...

The provision in Trump's bill allocates $85 million for Discovery's transfer and directs NASA and the Smithsonian to develop ...

The future of space shuttle Discovery and its possible move to Houston remains murky after officials put out a series of ...

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 Discovery space shuttle was first brought to D.C. to be housed by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on April 17, 2012. It was seen riding piggyback on a 747 airplane.

The space shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024.

The shuttle was part of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which ran from 1981 to 2011. The provision was criticized by the Smithsonian and others because of the cost and potential for damage of ...