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

NASA's draft request to move either the space shuttle Discovery or an Orion capsule reveals a 15% budget overrun on museum relocation studies, totaling $2.3 million in indecision. This bureaucratic debate distracts from the core issue: why argue over historical hardware when new spacecraft development is 30% behind schedule? The choice between 84 shuttle missions and uncrewed Orion test flights should be data-driven, but NASA's waffling sets a slower pace than the average agency decision, wasting taxpayer dollars.