Science and Exploration

NASA’s Orbiter Discovery’s Final Journey

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
April 23, 2012
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NASA’s Orbiter Discovery’s Final Journey

To a recording of the “Washington Post March” by the U.S. Marine Corps Band, the highlights of orbiter Discovery’s final ferry flight atop NASA 905, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Dulles International Airport outside Washington on April 17, 2012. Includes video of the aircrafts’ flyover of the metropolitan D.C. area just prior to landing. (This piece was an element of the “Welcome Discovery” program held at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center on April 19 and televised live on NASA TV.)

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