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.

NASA’s new administrator has floated a striking compromise in a long running fight over where the retired shuttle Discovery should live. Instead of uprooting the orbiter from the Smithsonian, he is signaling that Texas could receive a future lunar capable spacecraft,

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently signaled that the idea to relocate Discovery to Texas faces serious financial and logistical hurdles, cooling expectations that the retired orbiter would leave its longtime home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, according to reporting by Scientific American and Gizmodo.

The final pair of IROSAs will augment the solar power available for life support and scientific research activities aboard the ISS. They will also play a critical role in a planned controlled safe deorbit of the ISS in 2030 using a U.S. deorbit vehicle, which is being developed for NASA by SpaceX.

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

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current home on display at a Smithsonian Air and Space Museum hangar in Virginia, may end with a different spacecraft entirely landing in Houston.

Hundreds of NASA employees across the United States have accepted deferred resignation offers as the space agency’s workforce in the Houston area braces for potential cuts. Employees nationwide responded to President Donald Trump’s “Fork in the Road ...

The Propulsion and Structural Test Facility, also known as the T-tower, was built in 1957 by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and later transferred to NASA in 1960. At the Marshall Center, the tower was used to develop the Saturn launch vehicles.