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John Cornyn and Ted Cruz want to relocate a NASA space shuttle to Houston. Here's what it would take.
Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...
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The Space Shuttle’s Ecological Legacy: From Rocket Fuel to Wildlife Refuges
The roar of rocket engines, the trembling earth beneath your feet, and a pillar of fire slicing through the sky—few human ...
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 ...
Texas Republicans Want to Move NASA HQ to Houston to Save It From ‘Bureaucratic Micromanagement’
The senators claim that NASA’s headquarters in Washington D.C. is disconnected from the rest of NASA’s centers across the ...
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Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off
The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its ...
Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?
In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...
Former NASA astronaut James Newman discusses space travel advancements
Dr. James Newman, a former NASA astronaut, reflects on his career and the future of space travel during a visit to the Naval ...