Hard to Say GOOD BY!
 

Well, for the past 19 years, I have been one of the pool photographers at NASA, Kennedy Space Center.
Shuttle Discovery, The Flag ship of the shuttle fleet, Yesterday Flew its last mission, on top if a NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified 747 jet, to Washington Dulles International Airport where it will spend its days to come at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ( Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) in Chantilly, Va.
I arrived at the spec center at 3:15A.M. Tuesday 17 April 2012...... Our group of 6 pool photographers loaded our van and headed out for our last views of a Discovery Lift-Off (so to speak).
This is my small tribute to a space ship, its crews and the program for my 18 years of the past 40 years of the Space Program.

Hope you all enjoy the photos:


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GOOD BY DISCOVERY!

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Outstanding photos. Thanks for posting them and also for your service to our space program.

Best wishes.

Great pictures, thanks for posting them Gary!!:)

Nice photos. Thank you for sharing.

Great photos!

Very nice! Thanks, Gary.

Super! I was fortunate to be in Orlando at the time of a launch and I could see itout of my hotel window. Very exciting. Thanks for the great pics!

Thank you for sharing these pictures. If you have some other favorite pictures that you have taken in the past I for one would love to see them.

That's awesome! I wanted to take off to go take some photos, but couldn't get off work. You guys need photographers where you're at? :D

Great photographs!

Gary take Pride In Knowing you got to take Pictures of History.
They will always be part of your Life and Memories.
Great pics and Thanks for Posting them for us...........................


Clyde