Having last traveled to low Earth orbit in March 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery took to the skies one last time on April 17, 2012, piggybacking on a modified Boeing 747. The shuttle left Florida and landed at Dulles Airport outside of Washington, D.C., where it will joined the collection at the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar Hazy National Air and Space Museum. Discovery, the fleet leader of NASA's orbiters, flew 39 successful missions over 27 years, accumulating 365 total days in space. This is the second landing pass to land at Dulles.
18 фев 2022
