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You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.The latest variant in the ongoing American Innovation $1 Coin series ...
If passed, the bill would move space shuttle Discovery from the National Air and Space Museum’s location next to the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia and bring it to a ...
Space Center Houston, which would be responsible for hosting the shuttle, was not even told about the legislation before it was filed. NASA, too, is not a willing party.
CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...
NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display in Houston, if two lawmakers from Texas get their way. U.S. Senators John Cornyn ...
Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’ departs Edwards Air Force Base in California on top of NASA 747 aircraft for transport back to Kennedy Space Center, circa. October 1,1990.
HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill, which the ...
Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are blaming political favoritism for what they call a decades-old snub—and now they’re pushing to bring the Space Shuttle Discovery back to Houston Both ...
The two U.S. senators from Texas are hoping to bring one of NASA’s famed space shuttles to what they call its rightful home – Houston. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, both Republicans ...
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...
Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...