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Space shuttle Discovery's final flight

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    Retired spacecraft bound for D.C.

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There goes the discovery.

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Shuttle is going to be coming up this -- in Virginia that's going to be its new home.

Bittersweet day because that means that -- the end of the space program there is right there -- it took off what a beautiful beautiful site I don't know if I've ever seen that even -- I think it's happened on many occasions before.

-- -- Incredibly depressing them because it was a great program didn't -- you get up there were -- Russians to get to space as we bring out onto museum.

I was in no Wichita Kansas so once out of Boeing when they landed -- thing -- refuel it on the trip from California.

Back to Florida it the people is.

You know it that's coming tons of that space shuttle way on top of that 747 quicktime is it that way it was a big millennium it was a big big government took quite a while.

-- if you're in the Washington DC -- area.

Around the lunch hour and you can check -- online and find out exactly what time it'll be going over the national monuments are gonna do a -- Fly over into the cameras we -- this amazing because this this took off four minutes ago these are still live pictures.

Right now that you're watching that 747 with that can shuttle as a piggy back a lot of baggage -- -- for that shuttle.

Yeah audiocrush we pray for our bags -- -- wonder what that Sarkozy that you mentioned last hour the six astronauts who -- discovery's final space trip a year ago on hand to say goodbye to discovery.

So many jobs also leave as soon -- symbolically discovery leaves.

The space coast.

And they really needed direction from here on hand so you know the direction as space shuttle is that to the Smithsonian.

-- the list of big.

I achieve its for the discovery.

It to deliver this Hubble space telescope in -- he carried the first Russian cosmonaut to launch on the US spaceship.

Performed the first rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir.

With the first female shuttle pilot in the cockpit and returning Mercury astronaut John Glenn orbit and bringing shuttle flights back to life after the challenger and Columbia.

Accidents it was a nice day down in Florida for the take off usually that thing takes off vertically today more on the horizontal side today.

Fabulous beautiful shot -- -- live down in Cape Canaveral Florida.

It's going over the space coast right up the coast heading for Washington what's -- be parked out around Dulles.

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