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Outside Houston Is NASA's Walkable Texas Space Center Where Visitors Can See Spaceships And Science Labs Up Close

Discover NASA's iconic space center just outside of Houston, Texas, where visitors can see artifacts, spaceships, and peek ...
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The Red Blizzard – Inside the Soviet Union’s Forgotten Buran Space Shuttle

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union unveiled the Buran, a massive space shuttle built to rival NASA’s own. With an almost identical design but unique capabilities, it became a Cold War symbol of ambition ...

Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center to welcome more historic planes in major expansion

The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center will be expanding by 20% and bringing in dozens of new ...
Phys.org

Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback

Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...
Roll Call

Shuttle Discovery’s Texas transfer launches cost concerns

The Smithsonian Institution is resisting an effort from Texas lawmakers to transport the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of Mission Control, in a battle framed by the ...