April 17, 2012  

Space Shuttle Makes Final Trip

The Space Shuttle Discovery flew over Washington, D.C., on the back of a NASA 747 en route to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board have produced several reports about NASA’s shuttle program and the agency’s future in the post-shuttle era.