Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite being one of Houston's top attractions and a major tourist destination, Johnson Space Center still lacks one big draw: a ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA has clarified that any attempt to move the Discovery space shuttle from Virginia to Texas could not involve its disassembly—more or less making the project impossible. Texas lawmakers haven’t ...

The parts for a full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for public display. The City of Downey in California began relocating the winged ...

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Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as “Space City,” have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes. After all, the ...

After years of planning and construction, the California Science Center said Monday that construction is finally finished on a building set to become the permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour.

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