This is considerably more than the $85 million budgeted for transportation and exhibition construction. Unfortunately, doing so may require disassembling the Space Shuttle. A Capitol Hill source ...

Texas’ two U.S. senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, have called for the Space Shuttle Discovery to be relocated ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is looking into tearing NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces to move ...

A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his two rides to space remain on display in the Smithsonian. "Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer ...

A new political fight has erupted over whether the Space Shuttle Discovery should remain in Virginia or be relocated to Houston.

One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else as U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine seek to prevent the move from its home ...

When the Space Shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in 1981, it was the first reusable spacecraft. The massive orange external fuel tank was the major component designed to be destroyed on ...

Sean Duffy, the acting NASA Administrator, discusses the future of space exploration including putting a man on Mars.