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Science Museum Oklahoma to commemorate Discovery shuttle

FROM STAFF REPORTS | Published: April 8, 2012

SCIENCE

Museum to air

shuttle move

Science Museum Oklahoma will provide live coverage of Discovery, NASA's Shuttle, being permanently moved to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Va.

"Final Destination: Discovery's Journey Ends," will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17.

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"Final Destination: Discovery's Journey Ends," will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17.

“Final Destination: Discovery's Journey Ends,” will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17.

To commemorate Discovery's final journey, the museum, 2100 NE 52, will be streaming live coverage of Discovery's move from Florida, atop a Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. The museum will also have multiple hands-on, space-based experiments and aerospace artifact stations available for guests with which to interact.

For more information, call 602-6664, or visit www.sciencemuseumok.org.