WTC Honor Flag Will Fly On Last Shuttle Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS4) -- An American flag that flew over the World Trade Center site after 9/11 is heading into space for the last shuttle mission.
About 100 police officers handed the United States Honor Flag to NASA on Thursday at a ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The flag will fly on the shuttle Atlantis' final mission, tentatively set July 8.
Kennedy Space Center director Robert Cabana said the flag adds even more significance to Atlantis' flight, which will be the last of the shuttle program.
The flag will remain at Johnson Space Center in Houston until the launch.
The flag was donated by the Texas House of Representatives just after the 2001 terrorist attacks. It also has been flown in Iraq and Afghanistan and at the funerals of police officers.
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