Shuttle Discovery rolls to its new residence.
- 12 years ago
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STORY: NASA's space shuttle Discovery rolled to its new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia on Thursday, two days after the spacecraft made a piggyback jet ride over the U.S. capital.
Former Senator John Glenn, the first American in orbit 50 years ago and Discovery payload specialist in 1998, said knowledge from space must be used wisely.
"As our knowledge of the universe we live in increases, may God grant us the wisdom to use it wisely," said the 90-year-old Glenn.
The Shuttle Discovery was decommissioned in March 2011, with 39 missions flown, more than any other shuttle in history.
STORY: NASA's space shuttle Discovery rolled to its new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia on Thursday, two days after the spacecraft made a piggyback jet ride over the U.S. capital.
Former Senator John Glenn, the first American in orbit 50 years ago and Discovery payload specialist in 1998, said knowledge from space must be used wisely.
"As our knowledge of the universe we live in increases, may God grant us the wisdom to use it wisely," said the 90-year-old Glenn.
The Shuttle Discovery was decommissioned in March 2011, with 39 missions flown, more than any other shuttle in history.