Space shuttle Discovery transfer ceremony at Smithsonian Institution – in pictures

Space shuttle Enterprise is towed from the space hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum before the transfer ceremony Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Ashley Koen and Stephanie Harris wear hats depicting the space shuttle before the ceremony gets under way Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Space shuttle Discovery is placed in position Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Charles Bolden Jr, administrator of NASA, addresses the ceremony Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Former US senator and astronaut John Glenn witnesses the official signing over of the space shuttle. Next to Glenn are (left to right): Smithsonian secretary Wayne Clough, NASA administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden, and National Air and Space museum director JR 'Jack' Dailey Photograph: Gary Cameron/Reuters

A blow up figure depicting an alien stands in the crowd Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Marine Corp Drum and Bugle Corps and Color Guard march past the space shuttle Enterprise Photograph: NASA/Getty Images

Astronaut John Glenn walks in front of the space shuttles Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Young boys watch as the space shuttles sit nose to nose Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images