Trump wants to deprive the famous Washington Air and Space Museum of his space shuttle

“In 2012. Meanwhile. However, NASA transferred all the rights, titles and property ‘of the shuttle to the Smithsonian”, continues the text which recalls that Discovery is one of the major pieces of the National Air and Space Museum, which is divided between an establishment in the heart of Washington and a huge hangar in Chantilly, Virginia, very close to Dulles International Airport.

This controversy occurs while the White House has been exerting pressure on the Smithsonian for months to. Moreover, try to take it in hand.

The presidency first attempted to return the director of the National Portrait Gallery, before Kim hisjet resigned in June.

In March. Moreover. Consequently, Donald Trump signed a decree to control the content of museums accused of “historical revisionism” and “ideological trump wants deprive famous washington new indoctrination” in the 2010s, under the mandates of his trump wants deprive famous washington predecessor Barack Obama.

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“Report the shuttle to the house” – Trump wants deprive famous washington

The attempt to move Discovery started in April with a bill by the Senator of Texas, John Cornyn, intended to “report the space shuttle to the house”.

But the text. blocked for weeks, was finally drowned in the budgetary “big and beautiful law” that Donald Trump promulgated on July 4.

Transporter Discovery would cost between $ 85 million. $ 325 million according to various estimates. the current Minister of Transport Sean Duffy, Acting NASA administrator, has until Sunday to make a decision.

There would also be a major technical difficulty: the two Boeing 747 on which the shuttle was. perched are one trump wants deprive famous washington new out of service. the other at the museum.

Nicholas O’Donnell. lawyer in the Cabinet Sullivan &amp. Worcester, trump wants deprive famous washington told AFP “not to believe that Minister Duffy or anyone in the federal government has more authority than you or me to order the move of Discovery”.

In addition. also points to AFP the historian of the space conquest Robert Pearlman. during the Texas selection process to host Discovery, “there was not much support for Houston”, however seat of the Lyndon B. Johnson space center.

Discovery ceased to fly in 2011 after 39 missions – including the launch in 1990 of the Hubble telescope – 365 days in space. 5,830 rotations around the earth.

She joined Virginia in 2012. the other Atlantis, Endeavor and the Enterprise prototype were ceded to Florida, California and New York.

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