Discovery becomes Smithsonian's newest artifact

Before a crowd of shuttle Discovery's former astronaut fliers, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, the Smithsonian Institution's inducts the world's most-flown spaceship into the national collection of aerospace treasures.

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