The white thermal blanket's gone. The transport Discovery, you'd literally have to chop it up. And how in the heck would you ever be able to put it back together? If Ted Cruz and Cornyn think they're putting this thing back together, I want to see them get out there. They'll be out there for the next 10 years trying to figure this out. The space shuttle Discovery is an important historical artifact. It inspires wannabe scientists, and it's also a critically important subject of research for historians, scientists, and engineers. (01:03–01:12)
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Asserts that reassembling the space shuttle Discovery would be an extremely lengthy and difficult process.
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