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Space shuttle Discovery flies over D.C. to cheers

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 5:01pm

WASHINGTON -- It was an extraordinary sight, even for Washington -- a space shuttle flying over the nation's capital atop a modified 747 on the way to its permanent new home, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

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Space shuttle Discovery atop a 747 carrier jet departs the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery is being transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Space shuttle Discovery makes final takeoff

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:45am

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After three decades of space service, NASA’s oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, began its new life as a museum relic Tuesday with one final takeoff.

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In this Sept. 22, 1994, photo, U.S. National Parks Director Roger G. Kennedy is seen at the Field Museum in Chicago. Former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy, who staunchly defended his agency from budget cuts, has died at age 85. He had melanoma. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)

Roger Kennedy, former National Park Service director, dies at 85

Julie Cart Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 10:40pm

One day deep in the administration of George W. Bush — a time of tumult among environmentalists and conservationists — Roger Kennedy found himself shaking his head and sighing. The Endangered Species Act was in the cross hairs of a Republican Congress and his beloved National Park Service, which Kennedy directed from 1993 to 1997, was under assault.

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Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, talks after giving a speech at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on January 20, 2011. Clough said that Republican House leaders’ threats of budgetary consequences factored into his November 30 decision to remove a video from a National Portrait Gallery exhibition of work by artists who are primarily gay and lesbian.

Smithsonian chief says removal of video was hasty

Los Angeles Times, Mike Boehm

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 1:32pm

LOS ANGELES--G. Wayne Clough, the Smithsonian Institution's chief executive, said Thursday that Republican House leaders' threats of budgetary consequences factored into his Nov. 30 decision to remove a video from a National Portrait Gallery exhibition of work by artists who are primarily gay and lesbian.

In a brief interview after speaking at the Town Hall Los Angeles public issues forum at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Clough, who has been the secretary of the Smithsonian 2 1/2 years, said he wished he had taken more time and spoken to more art experts before making the decision. "It's the most painful thing I've ever done," he said.

But he said he didn't consider it censorship because in making the decision, "I didn't judge this work of art."

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