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Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...
A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...
The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...
A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some ...
A satellite dish that extends from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery mysteriously failed Thursday morning, leaving the seven-member crew without a radar used for navigation and without any ...
The shuttle is currently housed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.
There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all designed to fly at least 100 missions.
Thirteen years after its retirement, the space shuttle Endeavour was preparing for liftoff again on Friday, Jan. 26, as California Science Center crews slowly moved the orbiter across Exposition ...
Endeavour, which NASA named Orbiter Vehicle-105, was the final orbiter to join the space shuttle fleet. Support for LAist comes from. Become a sponsor.
This ambitious shuttle orbiter concept was a post-Apollo pipe dream we never got. This article was originally featured on The Drive. ... 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle.
NASA's space shuttle Discovery, the most-flown orbiter, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its first launch this week. You can see Discovery at the Smithsonian.
Crews successfully lifted into place giant rockets at the California Science Center, the first large components installed at the future home of the space shuttle Endeavour.