Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

Space Center Houston is not directly affected — but CEO William Harris could be. The Manned Space Flight Education Foundation — the nonprofit that operates Space Center Houston — doesn’t ...

Space Center Houston is not directly affected — but CEO William Harris could be. The Manned Space Flight Education Foundation — the nonprofit that operates Space Center Houston — doesn’t ...

The shuttle is currently located at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia ...

Discovery was flown on the “return to flight” missions that followed both of these ... “It is past time that the Space Center ...

Credit: Space Center Houston "One problem is that we have no ... needs new engines and would have to be recertified to return to flight. Moving Discovery by land would require a tremendous ...

Houston, long dubbed Space City, has anchored America’s cosmic ambitions since NASA planted its Johnson Space Center there in 1961. What began as a government-led enterprise on a donated 1,000 ...

Throughout those years, every single flight was run through Mission Control over at the Johnson Space Center here in Houston. In the waning days of the space shuttle program, NASA retired four ...

Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner departed the International Space Station (ISS) for a parachute assisted landing and ...

Space Center Houston, which would be responsible for hosting ... decades ago to work to try to refurbish one of them. The most flight-ready aircraft of the two had its orbiter attachments removed ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Several high school teams are competing to have their dishes sent to space at Space Center Houston. The competition is all a part of "The HUNCH Culinary Challenge" that ...