Back in April, I was fortunate enough to see the Space Shuttle Discovery take it's last flight over DC before it reached it's final home, the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center; part of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum. Since that day, I've been dying to go see the shuttle up close. I finally made it the other day and I was not disappointed!!!!
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| Just a couple photos from my initial series of photos on the shuttle. |
Below is a link to that blog:
http://tinyurl.com/axrho8n
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| Heat tiles still scarred from the shuttle's last flight. |
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| I was amazed to learn the white portion of the shuttle is actually quilted material! |
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| Underneath the engines looking forward. |
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| The Canada Arm. |
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| You can actually see that the inside remains as it was after the last flight. |
Was the quilted material on the outside or were you able to go in? Did you find out what the material is?
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