Space Shuttle Discovery's final flight
 

After two low-altitude passes over the D.C. area this morning, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery is on the ground now on it's way to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center.

NASA live feeds:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/discovery/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

take-off/farewell video from Kennedy:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=140805641

Saw that on the news.

Bittersweet day.

Hi,

What a beautiful sight!^ ( saw some of the coverage on the BBC)

Regards

TBS

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I've attached a photo I took of Discovery today - hope the link works. The craft was making its second and last flyover east along the National Mall. Hard to estimate altitude, but I'd guess 2000 - 2500 ft.

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.