Here comes shuttle Discovery

After being removed from atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft overnight at the Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital, Discovery is towed along a paved pathway to the nearby National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center for the induction into the Smithsonian.

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Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II/Spaceflight Now