Five hours after gliding home on its final mission, the shuttle Discovery was towed from the Kennedy Space Center runway to its processing hangar, where the spaceship will be safed and prepared for static display.

These photos chronicle Discovery's slow roll down the tow road late Wednesday afternoon.

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