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The iconic American space shuttle is carried atop a 747 NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to its new home at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s fleet, flew 39 missions, orbited the Earth nearly 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.
The iconic American space shuttle is carried atop a 747 NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to its new home at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s fleet, flew 39 missions, orbited the Earth nearly 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.
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