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Topic: Texas lawmakers: Move Discovery to Houston

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 07-10-2025 06:10 PM collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071025a-space-shuttle-discovery-smithsonian-houston-transfer-heist-senate-appropriations.html">'It's a heist': Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal space shuttle from Smithsonian</a></font> [i]A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback on Thursday (July 10), as a senator questioned the expense of carrying out what he described as a theft. "This is not a transfer. It's a heist," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois during a budget markup hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "A heist by Texas because they lost a competition 12 years ago."[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071025a-space-shuttle-discovery-smithsonian-houston-transfer-heist-senate-appropriations.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-071025g-lg.jpg" width="400" height="225" border="0"></a></center>
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