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.
- 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.Read More : http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/space-shuttle-discovery-s-final-voyage-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fspace-shuttle-discovery-s-final-voyage-slideshow%252Fspace-shuttle-discovery-attached-modified-nasa-747-aircraft-photo-121557026.html
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