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A new beginning after the end

The Discovery began its road to his new life.

As has been doing for 30 years, the oldest active tranbordadores was transferred to one of the three hangars that NASA has in the Kennedy Space Cente r whose function is to prepare these vehicles between the end of a mission and the next ... but this was not the case for Discovery .

Because her arrival at the Orbiter Processing Facility 2 was surrounded by an atmosphere of farewell as this time did not come to prepare for his upcoming flight (as there will be new to space travel) but for subjected to an in-depth and long-term with a quite different goal: to study and learn from a total vehicle remained 365 days in space, making it the manned vehicle with more "experience", and that It can provide valuable information that can be used in the future.

" We can still learn a lot from these vehicles. There are some hydraulic systems and other components that you really have not had the opportunity to take a look because they are too inside. So we are asking teams to give us a pair of these components, to make a detailed investigation we provide information for the next generation "said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator.

But there is a second reason, more closely related to retirement, and this is it ready to be taken to the Smithsonian museum , the largest in the world, where it is exposed to the public ... and is that it is as simple as "packaged" as is and take him to his new home, then you must be clear of anything that might be preligroso for future visitors, as the residual fuel remaining in the drive systems and Cartridges "fireworks" in the included.

A "housekeeping" that you will need several weeks to complete, and together with the deep INSPECTION of the components mentioned above, involve months of work before it can begin its final journey will be his place of break, where it will remain as a symbol of an era surrounded by many onlookers eager to see more close to that in many cases were raised to the sky, perpetuating the current and future generations the memory of his deeds and spreading, however slightly, the fascination for space. Undoubtedly the Discovery could not have better ending.

The past, present and future of aeronautics is present in the Smithsonian . Here you have the Discovery his new and final home.

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