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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.
SpaceX seeks regulatory permissions to start launching Starship-Super Heavy rocket systems from Launch Complex 37 at Cape ...
New trustee report reveals accelerated timeline for Social Security and Medicare insolvency, with potential 23% benefit reductions looming in 2033.
Stephen Robinson, a seasoned NASA astronaut with an impressive career spanning four shuttle missions and three spacewalks, ...
It has been a week since Congress passed the Republicans' major budget act. But what’s in it and how it will affect Americans' day-to-day lives remains a mystery to most. Congressional correspondent ...
One of his first steps would have been to attempt to accelerate the timeline for the Artemis II mission, which is scheduled to fly four astronauts around the Moon in April 2026.
NASA's retired Space Shuttle Discovery could be on the move from Virginia to Texas under a provision in the GOP's so-called ...
The Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday with a provision setting aside $85 million to move Discovery ...
A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...
HOUSTON — Included in President Donald Trump's budget bill passed by the U.S. Senate is a provision from Sen. John Cornyn to consider bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery to 'its rightful home ...
Yes—and no. Outside Space Center Houston stands Independence, a full-scale shuttle replica mounted atop a real NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. It’s impressive, but it’s not the real thing.
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle will be available on 14 July on BBC Sounds and wherever you get your BBC podcasts. It will be released as a boxset on BBC Sounds.