When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from northern Virginia to Houston.

Trump 'Big Beautiful Bill' provides $85 million to move a NASA space shuttle. Here's where Discovery, which made its inaugural flight in 1984, completed 39 missions before it retired in 2011.

Relocating the Space Shuttle to Houston is not only pricey, it could also damage the iconic spacecraft.

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 Space Shuttle Discovery would move to Texas under President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, according to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Cornyn’s office said in a statement on his ...

U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz got language into President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that creates a path for getting a space shuttle to Houston.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 engines, recently passed a critical milestone that put the integrated ...

Under the cover of darkness Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian An effort to move shuttle Discovery has merged with the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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 ...