But the Smithsonian has long sought a higher mission than national storage. George Brown Goode, who ran the Smithsonian in ...

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The great Texas space shuttle saga has taken a new twist: Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA, indicated that the space shuttle Discovery may not move from its retirement home ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

The Smithsonian’s popular National Air and Space Museum was one of the first museums that reopened to the public Friday after a monthlong closure during the government shutdown. The rest of the ...

The jewel of the new "Futures in Space" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is a Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule. Visitors who come to the museum to be ...

This article was updated on November 14, 2025. Now that the government shutdown has ended after a record-breaking 43 days, DC can finally get back to one of its favorite pastimes–going to the free ...

A Republican-led plan to move to Houston the Discovery space shuttle, an iconic holding of the National Air and Space Museum since 2012, has set off a fight for the future of the orbiter, which the ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have launched an ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) --When Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January, she didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit. But after 112 exhibits and hundreds of hours spent ...

The temporary closures began Sunday. Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 ...