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**Lady Cop** · 04-16-2012 06:23 AM

Space Shuttle Discovery was hoisted by a giant crane and mounted on a Boeing 747 Sunday for its last ever journey - a piggyback ride to Washington where it will go on display at the Smithsonian Museum.

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The 167,000-pound shuttle rested comfortably atop the modified jetliner Sunday

**Lady Cop** · 04-17-2012 08:43 AM

last liftoff and flyby of the beaches this morning, will fly by monuments in D.C. in a little while.

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**Lady Cop** · 04-17-2012 12:33 PM

AWE

Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol today in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital before landing at Virginia's Dulles International Airport on the back of a modified NASA jetliner.

Thousands of stunned onlookers packed the National Mall to watch the pair swoop by.

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flyby Cocoa Beach
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group of sixth-graders from Macon, Georgia, froze as Shuttle Discovery passed over Washington, D.C.

**Lady Cop** · 04-20-2012 07:36 PM

April 19, 2012: Space Shuttles Enterprise, left, and Discovery meet nose-to-nose at the beginning of a transfer ceremony at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Virginia. Space shuttle Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, traveled total 148,221,675 miles and will take the place of Enterprise at the center to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers at the center. (NASA/Smithsonian

some great photos of Discovery being welcomed at Smithsonian at link.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/smit...ml#photo=1

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**Lady Cop** · 04-27-2012 10:24 AM

should be seen over NYC in the next half-hour~

NASA's first shuttle orbiter, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, is on its way to Manhattan where it will soar over landmarks in an historic sky show as part of the space agency's process of wrapping up the shuttle program.

The shuttle - which never actually went into space but was a prototype used for tests - has taken off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia for New York, where it will land at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Brooklyn after its city-centre spectacle.

Strapped to the top of a modified 747 Boeing jetliner and flying at low-attitude, the shuttle will fly over the Statue of Liberty, up the Hudson River to the Tappan Zee Bridge and back.

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**Lady Cop** · 04-27-2012 11:40 AM

i emailed MF and told him to look up! hahaha

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more here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-City.html

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