WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- Washington was treated to the sight of a space shuttle flying overhead as the orbiter Discovery was carried atop a 747 jet heading for its retirement home.
Crowds watched as the shuttle was carried over the nation's capital before landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, from where it will head to its new home in a Dulles-area annex of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.