Overheard on CNN.com: 'This was my space shuttle moment,' reader says of Discovery
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Star-struck space lovers gazed skyward Tuesday to watch space shuttle Discovery's journey to Washington after a series of nostalgic fly-bys on the back of a NASA Boeing 747. The flight departed from Florida's Kennedy Space Center en route to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. It will spend its retirement at a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum facility in Chantilly, Virginia.
Space shuttle Discovery arrives in Washington
The photo at the top was shot by rocket technician Danny Mills of Cape Canaveral, Florida, who joined several other iReporters in documenting the shuttle's journey from point A to point B. Mills went over to Cocoa Beach to see the shuttle. He used an often-mentioned word to describe his feelings.
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An end of an era just like Apollo before it. The shuttle program is nothing more than memories and scraps of metal in museums across the nation. I assume our next manned space adventure will be in a hot air balloon launched from Capital Hill.