Shuttle Discovery

skylark94
skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
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Did anyone else on her route get the see the flyover today?

I live on the coast of Florida not far south of Canaveral. I took my family up to the beach at sunrise to watch from Patrick AFB. They flew right over us, then made their turn and flew over us again heading north to Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian.


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  • Femtec74
    Femtec74 Posts: 347 Member
    I work just north of Dulles airport - we got two passes right over my building - It was very exciting!



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  • Sweet_Potato
    Sweet_Potato Posts: 1,119 Member
    I missed it because I was in a meeting! It flew very close to my office building in Washington DC.
  • pinkyslippers
    pinkyslippers Posts: 188 Member
    Aww wow! Thanks for posting, you guys are so lucky! :flowerforyou:
  • softwind
    softwind Posts: 573 Member
    Thanks for the pics. I'm not in the flight path, so it's nice to see.
  • softwind
    softwind Posts: 573 Member
    Just found this awesome gallery.

    http://www.11alive.com/news/photo-gallery.aspx?storyid=238554
  • love2cycle
    love2cycle Posts: 448 Member
    I would have LOVED to see that!!
  • michelle225
    michelle225 Posts: 42 Member
    I was able to watch it from the roof deck of my office building in DC! So cool!
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    I could see it from my office.

    People down the hall were screaming in excitement. I thought that was a bit of an overreaction.
    -wtk
  • 8772
    8772 Posts: 2
    I live in Melbourne, it did a low fly by on the beaches. Its so sad to see it go.
    take good care of her for us. We will miss her here on the space coast.
  • 8772
    8772 Posts: 2
    :noway:
  • lizo11
    lizo11 Posts: 58 Member
    It flew past our building here at work (VA). My husband works really close to Dulles airport, and said was kind of surereal, everyone was pulled over to the side of the road, and on overpasses.
  • AntShanny
    AntShanny Posts: 359 Member
    I work in Alexandria, VA and it flew around our building, it was so cool! I'm a space geek so I was loving it! Then we pulled up NASA tv and watched it land at Dulles.
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    Also, this is a very fine place to post this:
    http://devour.com/video/we-stopped-dreaming/

    Cheers.
    -wtk
  • tovornca
    tovornca Posts: 2
    I was hanging out on the National Mall waiting. It was a wonderful piece of history to see.
  • Begood03
    Begood03 Posts: 1,259 Member
    The end of an era!
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    That just makes me sad really... while it would have been exciting to see the shuttle... it makes me sad that we will no longer be making trips to space... without hitch-hiking with the Russians that is...
  • Bagman12002
    Bagman12002 Posts: 216 Member
    Truely the end of a really neat era.
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    nice pix!

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