NASA officially delivered the space shuttle Discovery, its longest serving crewed spacecraft, to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Thursday (April 19) during a public ceremony to ...

April 17, 2012. The Discovery made its final voyage to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia. A crowd watches as the space shuttle Discovery, sitting on top of a modified ...

(CNN) — The space shuttle Discovery left Florida’s Kennedy Space ... will go to New York and eventually into its new home at the Intrepid Museum. The shuttle Endeavour will, by the end of ...

(AP) -- The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style ... its final flight and was ready to become a grounded museum relic. But what an exit. Discovery took victory laps around ...

The space shuttle that has flown more missions than any other is coming to the Smithsonian. Announced just moments ago, Discovery will be coming to the National Air and Space Museum to be ...

the White House and the Capitol before landing to begin its new life as a museum relic -- following three decades of space service for NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle. Discovery will be ...

For years, that facility, full of historic aircraft, has held Enterprise — a prototype shuttle that never flew in space. It will get swapped out for Discovery, since the museum wants a shuttle ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery is set to land in Washington ... the Smithsonian Institution during a four-day public festival, museum officials said Feb. 28. Flying from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

The space shuttle Discovery made its historic final voyage ... curator of human spaceflight at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, the answer was simple: Present the space shuttle ...

(Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) A space shuttle exhibit has landed at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum with an unveiling Wednesday night when officials also revealed a new educational ...

Discovery first launched in 1984 and flew 39 times in space, more than any other shuttle. It is the oldest of NASA’s three surviving space shuttles and the first to head to a museum. It will go ...

Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The world's ...