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Bye, Discovery!
13 years ago
NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery on top will fly above sections of the Central Florida coastline and Brevard County on Tuesday, April 17 starting at about 7 a.m. EDT. This will be the final time Discovery will take to the skies over Florida’s Space Coast as the spacecraft will be headed to its new home at the Smithsonian in Virginia.
The Space Coast fly over is expected head south from Kennedy down the coastline past Patrick Air Force Base and then head back up north along the coast to Kennedy where it will make a pass over the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and shuttle runway one last time before the SCA heads out of the area.
Discovery will be carried to Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., and then offloaded and transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. for permanent public display on April 19. Before landing at Dulles on Tuesday, the SCA and Discovery are expected to fly near a variety of landmarks in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area between 10 and 11 a.m.
NASA Television will provide live video of Discovery’s departure from Kennedy and fly over of the Space Coast and of the arrival at Dulles and fly over of Washington. A final weather briefing will occur at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow morning to give the final go for the ferry flight.
Coverage of ferry flight events will be broadcast live starting at 6:45 a.m. on KSC internal cable Channels 7 and 46 and on NASA Television which can be viewed online at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
The Space Coast fly over is expected head south from Kennedy down the coastline past Patrick Air Force Base and then head back up north along the coast to Kennedy where it will make a pass over the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and shuttle runway one last time before the SCA heads out of the area.
Discovery will be carried to Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., and then offloaded and transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. for permanent public display on April 19. Before landing at Dulles on Tuesday, the SCA and Discovery are expected to fly near a variety of landmarks in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area between 10 and 11 a.m.
NASA Television will provide live video of Discovery’s departure from Kennedy and fly over of the Space Coast and of the arrival at Dulles and fly over of Washington. A final weather briefing will occur at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow morning to give the final go for the ferry flight.
Coverage of ferry flight events will be broadcast live starting at 6:45 a.m. on KSC internal cable Channels 7 and 46 and on NASA Television which can be viewed online at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
