The world's most traveled spaceship took its last flight on
Tuesday. Riding on the back of a 747 jet, Discovery traveled
from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to Chantilly, Va. The space shuttle
will be installed this week in its new home _ the Smithsonian's
National Air and Space Museum annex near Dulles in Northern
Virginia. The shuttle has been a part of some memorable moments
since making its debut in 1984 following shuttles Columbia and
Challenger. It dispatched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990,
flew the first shuttle rendezvous to Russia's Mir space station
and carried the first female shuttle pilot in 1995. John Glenn,
the first American to orbit the Earth, got a second ride into
space aboard Discovery in 1998. Discovery got NASA flying again,
in 1988 and 2005, following the Challenger and Columbia
disasters. And it flew 13 times to the space station, more than
any other craft. On its last trip last year, it delivered a new
storage compartment packed with supplies and a humanoid robot.
The oldest surviving shut