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

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

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

The closures would affect some of the most popular tourist attractions in Washington, D.C.—including the National Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum, and the National Zoo—which have ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

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

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

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

The museum is celebrating its own history as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere by preparing for its centennial celebration in 2030.

Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January and didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit, but it become ...