Close up of Space Shuttle Discovery Headed Home

On April 17, 2012 NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery flew over the Washington, D.C. area on a Boeing 747 aircraft, and was headed to its final home in the Udvar Hazy Smithsonian Museum near Dulles Airport, Va. When it flew over NASA Goddard, NASA-TV producer Silvia Stoyanova had a telephoto lens on her camera and captured this amazing photo (right) of it.

Ed Campion captured a more on-the ground view (left) of the employees at NASA watching the shuttle fly overhead and capture it on their cameras. It was a day that all folks at NASA will remember in the Washington, D.C. area.
 For more info, photos and the history of Discovery, go to NASA's website: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

These are more amazing photos, taken by Tom Wrubleski of NASA's GOES Project, who was in Washington, D.C. - He caught a pic of the Discovery being shuttled with the White House in the foreground. Tom also got a shot of the Discovery with the U.S. Capitol Building in the foreground - just amazing shots!