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Texas senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Houston
Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...
Texas Republicans Want to Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From the Smithsonian
U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a new bill on Thursday called the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which ...
Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
Smithsonian Magazine4y
Space Shuttle Engines: Just the Stats
A notable exception is the space shuttle main engine ... in which the orbiter was mounted on the back of a Boeing 747, taken aloft, and released, Rocketdyne issued a brochure based on my ...
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Virginia senators oppose Texas senators' proposed plan to move Space Shuttle Discovery
The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It ...