Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, who said in April that Houston's long ties to the space program should have been recognized with a space shuttle when four were retired by NASA in 2010.

Houston, we might still get a shuttle. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill, which was voted out of the U.S. Senate and sent over to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, now includes a little something in it for Houston,

Texas Senators are trying to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from its current home at the Smithsonian to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.