A provision in last year’s budget reconciliation bill effectively directed the transfer of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston. Maxwell Zhu argues that even if Houston should be home to a shuttle orbiter, it shouldn’t get one though this approach
  • 1 points CrazyLegsRyan

    It actually effectively did not do this

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    1 points edwbuck

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/07/nasa-big-beautiful-bill-space-shuttle-discovery-johnson-center-houston/84491436007/

    It was the "Big Beautiful Bill" that set the tone for the current administrations Tax and Spending policies. That's not exactly the same bill, but the headline isn't fictitious, the Space Shuttle transfer was tied to financial legislation. They just got the wrong financial legislation.

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    1 points CrazyLegsRyan

    That confirms what I said. 

    Nothing in the bill effectively directed the transfer of the shuttle.

    They set aside a comically insufficient amount of money to “pay for” the transfer of the shuttle should it ever happen. 

    That is not directing the transfer.

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    3 points No-Significance5449

    These are the battleship texas people all over again. Its only patriotic to be wasteful for things I want!

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  • -2 points longshot1951

    Houston deserves a shuttle while New York does not. Unfortunately politics will rile and it will never happ.

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    2 points No-Significance5449

    Go to the space center lmfao

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