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PHOTOS: Discovery Transfer Ceremony

The space shuttle Discovery is transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.

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The space shuttle landed at on Tuesday, April 17 to take the place of the space shuttle Enterprise at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's .

The museum continued to of the with a transfer ceremony on Thursday that featured several honored guests including and other Discovery crew members.

On Monday, the Enterprise will be taken to New York on the same Boeing 747 that carried the Discovery on Tuesday.

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