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Old Apr 18, 2012 | 2:59 pm
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ericblair
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Originally Posted by bstreeter
Does anyone know if Discovery's flightpath can be viewed anywhere like on Flightaware.com?
Apparently not: there was a discussion about that on flightaware, and it must have been handled as a military flight.

The shuttle flew almost directly over our house in Tyson's Corner, VA at a couple of thousand feet. It was close. You could hear the T-38 well before you could see the planes. Was quite a thrill. They apparently went off of their plan and did a couple of extra passes; they went over our house in an unexpected direction (north-south instead of east-west).

Bittersweet day for the space program, that's for sure.
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