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A rare sight over the Capitol on Tuesday morning brought Congress together in a bipartisan desire to run outside or open a window.

NASA sent the retired Space Shuttle Discovery on a scenic flight low in the sky over Washington, strapped atop the space agency's custom Boeing 747.

NASA promoted the use of the Twitter hashtag #spottheshuttle for second-by-second updates on the fly-by, and several legislators made use of it Tuesday morning as the shuttle flew over the Capitol, the White House, and many of the monuments on the National Mall in Washington.

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