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The original space shuttle prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's bid to build NASA's shuttles will move through Downey.
A historic mock space shuttle made its way to its temporary destination Thursday as it was transported through Downey streets from storage to begin its restoration for public tours.
The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration." ...
It's moving day for original full-size space shuttle mock-up in Downey The prototype was built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ultimately successful bid to build NASA's shuttles.
The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...
Hunt said that, in 1979, while still in high school, he joined the Marine Corps on a delayed-entry program for recruits who were too young to qualify. He claims that an administrative error led to an ...
Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...
The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on display at Space Center Houston by January 2027.
The massive tax and immigration bill moving through Congress would transfer the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to a museum in Houston.
The Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday with a provision setting aside $85 million to move Discovery to Space Center Houston. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, both ...
The GOP spending and tax bill would move the Space Shuttle Discovery from its current home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex, the Udvar-Hazy Center, in Virginia to the ...
This 1972-made space shuttle mock-up, which is 122 feet long, will soon make its way through the streets of Downey — in pieces — on its way to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, where it will ...