One Last Flight for Discovery

NASA space shuttle Discovery took one final flight on Tuesday (April 17th, 2012) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Washington, D.C. for its new purpose as a display at the Smithsonian Institution. Mounted on top of a Boeing 747, Discovery logged a few more miles, adding to the over 148 million miles it already had traveled, on its journey. Thousands were watching and paying their respects to the thirty year old veteran of space flight. Many voiced their concerns that the display of Discovery marks the end of the United States shuttle program, but experts like NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said, "To those who say our best days of space exploration are behind us, I simply must disagree."


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