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Space Shuttle Discovery Arrives In DC Area, To Be Permanently Housed At Smithsonian
The NASA space shuttle Discovery is seen from the White House’s North Lawn as it is flown over the Washington Monument in Washington, DC April 17, 2012. The space shuttle was carried by a modified 747 aircraft from Kennedy Space Center to Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia where it will spend its retirement after 39 missions. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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