Space Shuttle Discovery takes off for Smithsonian on the back of jumbo jet

NASA's oldest and most travelled space shuttle, Discovery, is being flown to a new life as a museum relic. Discovery departed Florida's Kennedy Space Center at daybreak aboard a modified jumbo jet on its way to Washington, D.C., where it will become an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Nearly 2,000 people - former shuttle workers, VIPs, tourists and journalists - gathered along the old shuttle landing strip to see Discovery off.