Spaceship Circles DC Region Tuesday Morning Did you see the
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(Monday, 4:45 p.m.): Have you ever seen a spaceship fly through
the sky? It's not an entirely hypothetical question. On Tuesday
morning, April 17, the space shuttle Discovery is slated to
circle the Washington, DC, region as it makes its final
trip—riding piggyback on a 747 airplane—from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida to the shuttle's "retirement home," the
Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, according
to The Washington Post. Before it makes its final landing, the
space shuttle, which has made 39 trips into space since 1984 and
is NASA's oldest surviving shuttle, will make "a spectacular
flyover visible to much of the [DC] region," The Post reported.
The shuttle-and-747 combo wi