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    Isaacman opens door to alternatives to moving shuttle Discovery to Houston

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    1. smackfu on

      “NASA said Aug. 5 that the agency’s acting administrator at the time, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, had selected the vehicle but declined to identify it.“

      Heh

    4. lunex on

      Smart! Unless there is an intellectual, historical, or preservation-related justification, Discovery should remain at Udvar-Hazy.

    9. Neo_XT on

      Basically only two more years until the adults take back over. 2028 right around the corner. Tick tock, tick tock.

    11. FelixEvergreen on

      “A provision of H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill signed into law in July, included $85 million for a “space vehicle transfer” of a crewed spacecraft to a NASA center involved in the agency’s commercial crew program. The bill directed NASA to identify the vehicle to be transferred within 30 days of enactment.”

      Hey Doge, I found some actually government waste!

    12. Yrouel86 on

      It was not long ago that people here were dooming and glooming about Isaacman wanting to move the Shuttle ([https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1pccm88/trump_pick_for_nasa_chief_jared_isaacman_pledges](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1pccm88/trump_pick_for_nasa_chief_jared_isaacman_pledges)) and now unsurprisingly the reality is that he has a completely reasonable stance on this:

      >NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman suggested he would be open to transferring a spacecraft other than the space shuttle Discovery to Houston.

      >In a Dec. 23 interview on CNBC, Isaacman said moving the shuttle orbiter from its current home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia would depend on whether it could be done safely and within budget.

      >“My job now is to make sure we can undertake such a transportation within the budget dollars we have available and, of course, most importantly, ensuring the safety of the vehicle,” he said.

    13. itijara on

      I saw Discovery at the Udvar Hazy center, and I think it does deserve a better spot for the public to view it, but not at the risk of chopping it up. I would love for them to figure out a way to get it on the main Smithsonian Campus.

    14. AverageJoe-707 on

      85 million dollars to do something completely unnecessary. This administration is just a band of fucking thieves.

    15. JimHeckdiver on

      Honest suggestion here, but why not give Houston the Columbia?

      And for those that think Im being macabre, I mean the Apollo 11 Capsule, not the wreckage of the shuttle.

    16. Economy_Link4609 on

      Is the actual agreement that transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian available anywhere?

      I’m just curious to see if it contains any clause allowing NASA to reclaim it.

      I’m comparing that to say the agreements in place for the Iowa class battleships that explicitly do have a clause allowing the Navy to reclaim them.

      Just a curiosity of what language is or isn’t in there.

    17. ebfortin on

      Why is it such a issue? They don’t have enough manufactured issues that they need to invent some more? What’s the story behind this request.

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