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Hello!
I'm DJ Emmanuel I work at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Over my shoulder you see the shuttle Discovery on top of the Boeing 747
shuttle carrier aircraft. It's just flown in. It did two fly-bys.
I've been up since three o'clock waiting for this moment. It's been great.
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It flew from Kennedy Space Center this morning, at seven o'clock in the morning
and flew over Dulles, then it made its way down through DC.
Over to Goddard Space Flight Center before returning for final
fly-by and landing at the Dulles Airport.
Discovery was the work-horse of the NASA shuttle fleet.
It flew the most missions and also was involved a lot of the the most important
deployment of the astronomical satellites. It's going to be headed over to the Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center
on Thursday.
Enterprise was used for glide tests only, it has never flown any
actual shuttle missions, and it was used to test the aerodynamics
and flight controls of the shuttle. It wasn't powered.
It was just used to study the concept of using a re-usable glider.
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The two cranes - they are going to be using to unload the shuttle Discovery off
the jumbo jet. On Thursday, both the shuttles are going to be
outside the Undvar-Hazy Center for the public
to go around. No better place for it then the Udvar-Hazy Center.
This is a great place to display the Discovery shuttle, since this is
the work-horse for NASA.
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It sent shivers up my spine, to see the shuttle
you know, so close-up. Enjoyed it a lot.
And having all the people that were at the museum made it an incredible experience.
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