In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for potential lobbying ...

Three U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “illegal lobbying” to block Discovery ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Houston helps power America. Imagine what we could do if Washington invested $40 billion here instead of Argentina.

Three Texas Republicans urged the Justice Department to investigate their allegations that the Smithsonian broke lobbying law.

The saga of the Great Space Shuttle Relocation has taken another turn after US lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to ...

have called for the Space Shuttle Discovery to be relocated from the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington, D.C., to the visitors center at NASA’s Johnson Space ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move.