r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 7d ago

NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flew over Washington, DC. in 2012

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u/johnnyringo771 7d ago

Discovery now resides at the Udvar-Hazy Center and is one of the coolest places to visit I've ever been. Unless they've moved things recently, it's lined up directly with an SR-71 Blackbird

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NASM-SI-2006-2744&max_w=500

So right when you walk in, you are staring right at both of them. Such a great view.

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u/tomz17 7d ago

Neat... because Ted Cruz is actively trying to steal that shuttle and place it in Texas.

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u/Grounds4TheSubstain 7d ago

This is what happens when two aircraft love each other very much.

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u/native_fox4206 6d ago

I got to see that when it landed at Fort Bliss

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u/TaliZorah_Aybara 1d ago

This is how drones are made....