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Space shuttle enterprise new york9/21/2023 ![]() (The museum paid for the shuttle's transportation costs-$9.6 million-up front.) The Intrepid museum also had to reinforce the carrier's deck to support the shuttle's weight, and built a 56-foot-tall all-weather tent to temporarily protect it from the elements. A Supermarine Scimitar F.1 British Royal Navy fighter bomber, a Douglas F3D-2 (F-10) Skyknight, and a Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-15 aircraft moved to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, N.Y. To prepare for the shuttle's arrival, the Intrepid had to make space and removed three Korean War-era jets from its flight deck. After unloading Discovery from the back of the SCA, two giant cranes loaded the Enterprise in its place. Discovery was flown on the same 747 SCA from its temporary home in Florida to Virginia earlier this month. The decision process was controversial, but ultimately, the Intrepid museum was awarded the Enterprise and the Smithsonian gave up the prototype in exchange for space shuttle Discovery, which actually flew into space from 1984 to 2011. Last year, when the 30-year-long space shuttle program ended, NASA had to choose which museums would get to keep which shuttle, if any. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center was designed to showcase the Enterprise, and the shuttle had been parked there since the center opened at Dulles airport in 2003. ![]() Once the full shuttle program launched, NASA retired the Enterprise and gave it to the Smithsonian Institute in 1985. The exhibit will be open to the public in July as the Intrepid continues to work on a permanent display facility for the Enterprise.Įnterprise, named so after an epic write-in campaign by Star Trek fans, was a space shuttle prototype built in 1976 for ground and flight tests on the 747. A crane with a 190-foot boom will hoist Enterprise onto the Intrepid's flight deck, where it will be stationed under a temporary climate-controlled pavilion. A tugboat will pull the barge through Jamaica Bay, under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, through New York Harbor, and up the Hudson to Pier 86. In June, crews will take the Enterprise off the 747 by crane and put the prototype shuttle onto a barge for transportation to its new home at the Intrepid museum, which is docked on the Hudson. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play At 11:26 Eastern NASA tweeted the 747's touchdown at JFK, where the shuttle will stay for the next month-plus. Enterprise began its grand tour of New York at about 10:30. The flight was delayed five days due to bad weather, but otherwise went as planned. Spectators lined the Hudson to get a look at the Enterprise and snap some photos as it took to the skies one last time. After a series of flyovers above the Statue of Liberty, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, the George Washington Bridge, and other NYC locales, the 747 landed at JFK airport where it was greeted with a star-packed ceremony that included NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, New York Sen. It flew up and down the Hudson River this morning, not far from PopMech's office in the Hearst Tower. Mated on top of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), the 75-ton Enterprise prototype space shuttle came north from Washington, D.C., this morning. ![]() ![]() The first space shuttle just became the first space shuttle to be in New York City.
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