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Space Shuttle Discovery Becomes Museum Exhibit
More than a year after its last mission, the retired U.S. space shuttle Discovery was officially welcomed into its new home, April 19, 2012. The shuttle rolled into the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington, where it will go on permanent display.
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Workers from NASA Kennedy Space Center and United Space Alliance follow space shuttle Discovery as it arrives at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
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Opera Singer Denyce Graves sings the National Anthem at a ceremony commemorating the transition of space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
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Space shuttle Enterprise is seen as the United States Marine Corp Drum and Bugle Corps and Color Guard march by at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly. Enterprise will be transferred to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. (NA
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Space Shuttle Enterprise is prepared to be rolled from the Space Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center prior to a transfer ceremony, in Chantilly, Virginia. (NASA/Paul E. Alers)