Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight

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Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight

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Space shuttle Discovery waits at the Mate-Demate structure before being placed atop a 747 carrier jet at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery was transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Tuesday, April 17.

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Space shuttle Discovery sits atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ready to transport it from Kennedy Space Center to Washington D.C. Following the retirement of the shuttle fleet, Discovery will be on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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The last crew of space shuttle Discovery in Cape Canaveral, Fla., sees the spacecraft off on its final flight.

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Space shuttle Discovery sits atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

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Space shuttle Discovery atop a 747 carrier jet departs the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery was transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

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People on a roof of a building in Arlington, Va., watch as the space shuttle Discovery flies past atop a Boeing 747.

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Four-year-old Alex Mendez wears a space shuttle costume while he waits with thousands of spectators for the arrival of the space shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

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Space shuttle Discovery atop a 747 carrier jet.

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Space shuttle Discovery mounted atop a 747 shuttle carrier aircraft flies by the Washington Monument during a flyover of the nation's capital on its final trip to its retirement place near Washington, D.C.

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School children on a tour watch as Space Shuttle Discovery flies over the U.S. Capitol during a flyover of Washington, D.C.

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The space shuttle Discovery, tethered to the back of a modified 747 jumbo jet, passes over the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

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