In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be transferred, risking irreversible damage to one of the most meticulously preserved pieces of spaceflight history.

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces to get it to Texas

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