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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

TechnologyMarch 20, 2026
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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule
The request goes beyond a one-time move to transporting all types of vehicles.
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NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location.

Or to put it another way: NASA is seeking to learn more about what it would take to remove the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia and relocate it to Houston, as compared to transporting a smaller space capsule from anywhere in the country.

The space agency on Thursday (March 19) released a draft request for proposal (DRFP) for the "NASA Flown Space Vehicle Multimodal Transportation Multiple Award Contract," seeking to learn how contractors would approach transporting both "large aerospace vehicles and smaller spacecraft capsules."

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