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Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage

The space shuttle Discovery took off on its final voyage, on a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex. The United States retired its space shuttles last year after finishing construction of the $100 billion International Space Station, a project of 15 countries, to begin work on a new generation of spaceships that can carry astronauts to destinations beyond the station's 240-mile-high (384-km-high) orbit. For its last ride, Discovery took off not from its seaside launch pad but atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier jet that taxied down the Kennedy Space Center's runway at dawn. The shuttle's tail was capped with an aerodynamically shaped cone and its windows were covered.

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Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage

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  1. The space shuttle Discovery, attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft, takes off headed for it's final home at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

  2. The space shuttle Discovery, attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft, takes off headed for it's final home at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

  3. The space shuttle Discovery, attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft, makes a final flyby before heading for it's final home at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

  4. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, performs a fly-by as it arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

  5. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, performs a fly-by as it arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

  6. On it's final mission, the Space Shuttle Discovery rides atop a NASA modified 747 plane over Washington.

  7. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia April 17, 2012. Discovery will go on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.

  8. Space Shuttle Discovery flies past the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol atop a NASA modified 747 plane in Washington.

  9. The space shuttle Discovery rides on top of a NASA 747 transport jet over Washington before landing at it permanent home in the Smithsonian Museum at Dulles International Airport.

  10. Space Shuttle Discovery is flown during its final mission over Washington.

  11. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, performs a fly-by as it arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

  12. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, performs a fly-by as it arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

  13. The space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet, arrives at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

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