The nearly 900-page spending bill, dubbed by President Donald Trump as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” includes a provision ...

Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...

NASA may relocate Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston under a new $85M law, sparking debate over the ...

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.

Here’s how it works. The new name for Space Center Houston's full-size space shuttle replica, Independence, is unveiled, Oct. 5, 2013. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com /Robert Z. Pearlman) ...

HOUSTON — Included in President Donald Trump's budget bill passed by the U.S. Senate is a provision from Sen. John Cornyn to consider bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery to 'its rightful home ...

The historic space shuttle Discovery, one of NASA’s most famous orbiters, may soon be moving again—though not into space.

“It's long overdue for a retired NASA space shuttle to rest at Houston's Johnson Space Center so Texans can see, learn from and enjoy it for generations,” said Gov. Greg Abbott in a statement ...

Senator John Cornyn (at center) speaks about the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act," an effort to move the space shuttle Discovery, at a press conference at Space Center Houston on June 20, 2025 ...

Space Center Houston, where the shuttle is expected to be put on display, is the official visitors center of Johnson Space Center in Houston. It is already home to a replica of the Space Shuttle ...

Space Center Houston, which serves as the visitor center for NASA's Johnson Space Center, has announced Oct. 5 as the day it will christen its full-size space shuttle orbiter replica.

Houston, we have a space shuttle. The space shuttle Endeavour landed in Houston today (Sept. 19) for a one-day stopover while en route to its new museum home in California.