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Smithsonian would lose space shuttle to Texas

Texas would get iconic space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian under Trump’s budget bill

The Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday with a provision setting aside $85 million to move Discovery to Space Center Houston. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, both Republicans, are pushing for the move and lauded its passage this week. Cornyn said the move would right an “egregious wrong.”

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Smithsonian would lose space shuttle to Texas under GOP bill

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, who said in April that Houston's long ties to the space program should have been recognized with a space shuttle when four were retired by NASA in 2010.

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Trump’s tax bill would send an iconic Smithsonian spacecraft to Texas

The massive tax and immigration bill moving through Congress would transfer the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to a museum in Houston.

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Behind the $85 Million Space Shuttle Move Fierce Debate Over Engineering, Cost, and National Legacy

I would much rather see that money invested in NASA’s science program,” said Garrett Reisman, who flew on Discovery as a ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Marks 35 Years from Launch | Scientific American

The Hubble Space Telescope and a spacewalking NASA astronaut are seen in orbit around Earth during STS-61, the 1993 servicing mission to correct the observatory’s optics. NASA.

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Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

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