August 22, 2011 A Virtual Tour Of Discovery's Business End

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By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief

With the shuttle era over, memories of the amazing accomplishments of the program, and its terrible tragedies, are the stuff of history books, but enterprising NASA technicians have created a digital tribute to the venerable spacecraft. Just before they decommissioned Discovery to send it to the Udvar Hazy Center of the Smithsonian in Washington, NASA shot an interactive 360-degree view of the cockpit and its immediate environs. Click anywhere on the screen and move the mouse where you want to see.