Politics & Government

PHOTOS: Discovery Transfer Ceremony

The space shuttle Discovery is transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.

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The space shuttle will take the place of the space shuttle Enterprise at the  in Chantilly.

On Monday, the Enterprise will be taken to New York on the same Boeing 747 that carried the Discovery over Washington to Dulles International Airport on Tuesday.

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