http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/04/discovery-touches-down-at-dulles-international-airport/ A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Thu, 23 May 2013 11:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/04/discovery-touches-down-at-dulles-international-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-9136 Greg Zsidisin Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:41:09 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/?p=27466#comment-9136 Amazing and gratifying to see the crowds of people and cars around Dulles Airport today, although it's also sad to see this definitive end of the Shuttle Era. It will be cool to be able to see Discovery "up close and personal" at Udvar-Hazy, but a shame that she is no longer flying. And wherever our future Apollo-redux capsules will take us, I agree with those who say we will miss the early days of big winged Shuttle Orbiters. Amazing and gratifying to see the crowds of people and cars around Dulles Airport today, although it’s also sad to see this definitive end of the Shuttle Era. It will be cool to be able to see Discovery “up close and personal” at Udvar-Hazy, but a shame that she is no longer flying. And wherever our future Apollo-redux capsules will take us, I agree with those who say we will miss the early days of big winged Shuttle Orbiters.

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