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    Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian in BBB - The move could cost $200-300 million dollars
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    Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian in BBB – The move could cost $200-300 million dollars


    Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian in BBB – The move could cost $200-300 million dollars

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/relocation-of-space-shuttle-discovery-may-hinge-on-big-beautiful-bill/

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    2. AdhesivenessFun2060 on

      $300 million dollars for a tourist attraction but medicaid needs to go.

    4. OutrageousBanana8424 on

      Slap in the face to the NASA engineers and scientists being told to resign by July or face termination because the country is in too much debt. 

    5. Bigfamei on

      It totally makes sense to move a muesum piece to a state. Instead of using that money to fund science.

    6. bougdaddy on

      where are the dems at who should be howling and railing against this massive stupidity? $300 million is a drop in the bucket to politicians but it needs to be made clear to the american public that while the house and senate want to take funding away from areas that maga actually needs they have no compunction about spending ‘small amounts’ like $300M for nothing more than pride-of-place. even if it only costs $85 million, how many school teachers, school lunches, nurses, firefighters would that one paltry sum help?

      we’re in the position we’re in because the asshat dems decided the most outrageous thing they could do to show how against herr trumpler they were, was to hold up little signs during his speech to congress.

    7. Motive25 on

      Meh- they can just cut it up, load the pieces on low-boys or rail cars, and away we go! Save a lot of money that way. Bolt it back together at the other end. Bingo-Texas gets their trophy. Who cares if it gets mutilated in the process….

      🙄

    8. The-Invisible-Woman on

      They are about to fire thousands of scientists and engineers at Johnson Space Center. Maybe use the money to save the jobs of our best and brightest instead?

    9. ZanoCat on

      Discovery doesn’t belong to and in Texas. There is not a single reason they should be able to smuggle it in there via this MAGA bill.

      Shameful.

    10. lmxbftw on

      This amount of money would fully fund the cuts being made to the Roman, Webb, and Hubble space telescopes.

    11. JohnnyricoMC on

      > Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act

      The “home” of the Space Shuttle is Kennedy Space Center, where it always took off and received all final assembly.

      Besides that, Texas already has a space shuttle. Just not one that was ever spaceworthy. The Independence (formerly Explorer), a full-scale replica on display at the Johnson Space Center’s visitor center, and it’s sitting on top of shuttle carrier aircraft 905 no less. It’s been there for nearly 10 years now.

    12. CrazyCletus on

      Further proof that it’s not about the costs to the government, it’s about political favors. <sigh>

    13. Thewall3333 on

      My bet is that many of the contractors who would be needed to do this are based in Texas. And have suffered a drop in business since the Shuttle program retired, so this is a way to revive it — and, doubtless, some have family or friends directly tied to those businesses.

      And of course, it’s a federal “cost plus” contract under tight deadlines, so they’d be able to milk the prices they can charge with bogus costs. A real traditional Texas pork barbeque.

    14. TransportationEng on

      The real question is why there is one in NY. I want one in the Smithsonian.