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Jared Isaacman, NASA’s newly confirmed leader, says he will determine whether moving Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston will be affordable and if it will keep the historic shuttle intact. Experts have cast doubt.
Jared Isaacman, the new NASA administrator, signaled he was open to offering other spacecraft to Texas instead of the Discovery, housed at the Smithsonian.
The controversial plans to move the space shuttle Discovery to Houston have become even murkier following recent comments made by the new NASA administrator.
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NASA plans to demolish the iconic Saturn V and Shuttle test towers
The skyline of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is about to change in a way that closes a defining chapter of the Space Age. The towering structures that once shook under the power of Saturn V and space shuttle tests are slated for demolition as the agency clears room for a new generation
The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept around for the Space Shuttle Program. Now, the vehicle is back to its original purpose of positioning Moon-bound rockets on their launch pads.
One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutting-edge technology.
Before he found himself a target of the Trump administration as a US senator, Mark Kelly was a NASA astronaut who flew to space on 4 shuttle missions.
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