SHUTTLE DISCOVERY RETIRED, SYMBOL OF GREATNESS JUNKED.

 

What once proved the can-do attitude and spirit of America, NASA's Shuttle Discovery was mated into retirement to its Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum final resting place. Icheoku says what a day, April 17, 2012 that an iconic American symbol of great ingenuity was decommissioned permanently and you wonder why? But like every good thing in life, there is always time for an end and so was now the Discovery Shuttle. So long DS. Now many of us will head to the Smithsonian to have a chance of a closer proximity to the machine with millions of moving parts that we have come to admire from far distance as it rocketed into space with both its astronaut human passengers and tons of cargo that aided the building of the space station. What a day.