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Smithsonian fights $85M plan to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery to Texas

Gail P Sherman
Jul 31, 2025
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Space Shuttle Discovery (Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock)

The ridiculously named "One Big Beautiful Bill" signed last month allocates $85 million to transfer a "space vehicle" to "a field center of the Administration that is involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program and "placed on public exhibition at an entity within the Metropolitan…

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