Discovery Flyover of DC Scheduled for April 17
The flight is scheduled to occur between 10am and 11am local time and will involve a modified Boeing 747 known as a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with the shuttle mounted on top of it, NASA and Space.com‘s Robert Z. Pearlman said. The flight will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will end at Washington Dulles International Airport, but not before it flies approximately 1,500 feet above the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
