Space shuttle enterprise4/27/2023 Get our apps here and sign up for email newsletters here. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Get the latest from NBC 4 New York's weather team anytime, anywhere. Last week, three aircraft were taken off the flight deck and sent to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, N.Y. In order to do that, Intrepid had to do some shuffling around of its collection. The initial plan was to leave it at the airport for a couple of years until its permanent home was set, she said, but "we want the public to be able to experience this immediately." The public's interest is what drove the Intrepid to find a way to display it even though a permanent display location still has to be found, Marenoff-Zausner said. She is confident the public will feel the same way and anticipates interest in the shuttle will increase the number of annual visitors by about 30 percent, to 1.3 million over the course of a year. "This is an institution in American history," she said, adding, "This tested so many different things that without it, travel into space would never have happened." That doesn't make Intrepid any less excited about having it, Marenoff-Zausner said. The museum anticipates opening the shuttle exhibit to the public in mid-July.īill Gates' Daughter Reportedly Paid $51 Million for This NYC Penthouse-It Comes With 3,400 Square Feet of Outdoor Space The shuttle prototype was housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington but will soon be making its home at the Intrepid, where it will be "the largest and most significant space artifact in the entire Northeast," said Susan Marenoff-Zausner, Intrepid's president.Ī ceremony celebrated the shuttle's arrival at JFK, where it will remain for a few weeks until it is taken off the 747 jet it rode to New York.Īfter that, Marenoff-Zausner said, it will be put on a barge in early June and brought up the Hudson River to the Intrepid, where it will be put on the flight deck and a pavilion over it will be completed. The shuttle had been scheduled to arrive earlier in the week but NASA pushed it back because of bad weather. If you saw the shuttle today, Tweet your photos, send them to or post them to Instagram using #NBC4NY. The space shuttle Enterprise, riding atop a modified jumbo jet, glided past the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center on a flight over New York City before landing at Kennedy Airport Friday.
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