Space shuttle Discovery, carried atop a 747, as it flies near the U.S. Capitol today. The scaffold those guys are standing on is on top of the capital dome. From NASA: "Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles." 148 million miles, that would get you to the sun and half way back, or maybe even Mars.
Via Dustbury and The Maddow Blog.
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