20 Cool Photos of Space Shuttles Being Transported by Air
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Recently, one of the final chapters in the U.S. space shuttle program concluded, as Discovery was flown to the Smithsonian. Whenever a U.S. space shuttle needs to be moved somewhere (besides space), a specially-modified Boeing 747 is used. To commemorate the retirement of Space Shuttle Discovery, we found 20 cool photos of space shuttles being towed by jet planes:
