Moving Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston may cost $325M, mostly for a new facility at Space Center Houston, Smithsonian's breakdown shows.

"The space shuttle Discovery is not on loan to the Smithsonian from NASA," the message read. "Ownership was transferred to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum." ...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on display at Space Center Houston by January 2027.

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 GOP spending and tax bill would move the Space Shuttle Discovery from its current home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex, the Udvar-Hazy Center, in Virginia to the ...

The shuttle Discovery — NASA's most-flown space plane — will take one last flight this week, but will never leave the planet again. The shuttle's final mission is a piggyback ride atop a jumbo ...

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 ...

Discovery would also be “extremely complex and difficult” to transfer, the Smithsonian said, adding there is a “significant” threat of damage to the shuttle. Garrett Reisman, a former ...

Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet, will be accepted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. The space shuttle has been the icon for American ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests far from Texas, on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and ...

One tiny provision you may not have heard about in the massive proposal is a plan to relocate the Space Shuttle Discovery - the most utilized orbiter in U.S. history - from the Smithsonian's air ...