U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a new bill on Thursday called the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which would require the space shuttle Discovery to be transferred from the ...

How do you prepare the most storied space shuttle for a second life on Earth? Discovery, which set a record by flying 39 missions, cumulatively spent 365 days in space and traveled 148,221,675 miles.

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" to move Space Shuttle Discovery from ...

Greg Abbott. The shuttle has been on display in Virginia since April 2012, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian, according to the ...

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...

Space Shuttle Discovery went to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. But Cornyn and Cruz—who believe the Houston snub was politically motivated—now want to get that ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Since 2012, the space shuttle Discovery has been the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly ...