Space Shuttle Enterprise isn’t go anywhere just yet—today’s foul weather has delayed a scheduled flight up to its new home in New York.
Thousands of residents and visitors in D.C. streamed onto the National Mall, Hains Point, the Georgetown waterfront and just about any place with an open view of the sky this morning to see Space Shuttle Discovery make one last trip before it reaches its final resting place at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum in Dulles.
Apr 16, 2012
Look Up: The Space Shuttle is Coming!
Don’t forget to look out towards the Potomac River tomorrow morning between 10 and 11 a.m.—you may just catch a glimpse of Space Shuttle Discovery as it is flown over Washington on the back of a 747 on its way to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum tomorrow.
Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Air and Space Museum So this is how we got to spy on Boris and Natasha. For today only, until 5:30 p.m., the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum will be hosting a free, public viewing of the newly declassified HEXAGON (KH-9) satellite in the parking lot of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The now hefty, ten-foot in diameter relic of the cold war took pictures of the Soviet Union and…
Cheers erupted from the staff at the National Air & Space Museum this afternoon as NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, over a live feed from Kennedy Space Center, officially announced that space shuttle Discovery will find a new home at the Udvar-Hazy Center.