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| Tweet Topic Started: 4 Jun 2012, 09:23 PM (161 Views) | |
| Deleted User | 4 Jun 2012, 09:23 PM Post #1 |
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The journey of Space Shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in New York City completed its second leg on Sunday, as the retired — now on a barge — made its way from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens to a shipyard in New Jersey. After being transferred to a larger crane barge, Enterprise will make its final voyage on Wednesday, when it is floated a few more miles to the Intrepid and lifted onto the deck. ![]() See http://www.nycaviation.com/photo-galleries/photos-space-shuttle-enterprise-floats-sails-into-new-york-harbor/ for pictures Thanks to NYCaviation.com |
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| skibboy | 5 Jun 2012, 02:46 AM Post #2 |
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didnt see it here, ash, sorry...
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| skibboy | 5 Jun 2012, 10:58 PM Post #3 |
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Ship Photos of The Day – Space Shuttle Enterprise Hits the Water… and a Bridge [UPDATE] BY GCAPTAIN STAFF ON JUNE 5, 2012 Today’s ship photos come to us via New York City where the Space Shuttle Enterprise began its journey over the weekend from JFK International Airport to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The Enterprise’s journey from JFK to the Intrepid was expected to take 2 days but was postponed due to bad weather. Instead, the Enterprise was brought to Weeks Marine’s facility in Bayonne, NJ and is now expected to arrive at the Intrepid on June 6, where she will be hoisted by crane onto the iconic aircraft carrier that hovers over the West Side Highway. Here she is on June 3rd getting loaded onto a barge owned by Weeks Marine. ![]() Photo via Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum facebook page Once loaded, the Enterprise set off on what was scheduled to be a two day tow to the Intrepid. Here she is under tow by Weeks Marine tugs. The lead tug shown here is Weeks Marine’s 2,000 HP tug, Shelby. ![]() Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Brian Mullin. Still under tow, local pleasure craft could not resist the urge to get up close and personal with the Space Shuttle. But the Coast Guard ensured no one got too close. ![]() Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Brian Mullin. Here’s the Enterprise entering N.Y. Harbor as she passes under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, June 3. ![]() Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin. Inclement weather delayed the Enterprise’s arrival at the Intrepid. She was forced to stop after the first leg of her journey in Bayonne, NJ and is expected to complete the trip on June 6th. Update: While passing by a New York railroad bridge on its way to Bayonne, NJ, an ill-timed gust of wind caused the space shuttle to (nearly) catch flight and clip it’s wing on the bridge. Luckily, the damage was mearly cosmetic. “The railroad bridge and the Cross Bay Bridge, each presented challenges,” said Dennis Jenkins, who was on board the barge with Enterprise. “The passage through the railroad bridge was narrow with only a few feet of clearance on each wingtip, while the Cross Bay was only a few feet higher than the vertical stabilizer, Mother Nature did not smile on us. Just as the barge entered the railroad bridge, the wind caught it and pushed the right wing into the bridge abutment.” ![]() Photo: Dennis Jenkins Here’s some video from the first leg of her journey from JFK to Bayonne, NJ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=za26cpr3Vbg source: gcaptain.com |
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| skibboy | 7 Jun 2012, 03:04 AM Post #4 |
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Space Shuttle Enterprise makes final landing By Leigh Remizowski June 6, 2012 Shuttle Enterprise arrives at new home New York (CNN) -- The Space Shuttle Enterprise made its final descent Wednesday, landing at its new home at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Though it never traveled into outer space, the Enterprise did make its way from a Smithsonian Institution museum near Washington, above the New York skyline mounted atop a 747 jumbo jet, and up the Hudson River by barge to the museum where it will be displayed for the public. On Wednesday, the shuttle was hoisted by crane and then lowered onto the flight deck of the Intrepid, the decommissioned U.S. aircraft carrier that has been transformed into a museum. As the shuttle moved through the waterways of Lower Manhattan, it made an appearance near the Statue of Liberty. A wingtip of the shuttle was damaged slightly on Sunday during its transit from John F. Kennedy Airport to Weeks Marine in Jersey City, New Jersey, where it was held until Tuesday, according to a statement by Intrepid museum officials. It has since been repaired. Photos: Enterprise in the Big Apple Shuttle Enterprise makes final journey The shuttle was on display at a Smithsonian Institution museum before being flown from Virginia's Dulles International Airport on April 27 and making its final flight to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Discovery -- the most traveled of the shuttles -- is replacing Enterprise in the Smithsonian facility. Completed in 1976, Enterprise was designed as a prototype test vehicle. Test pilots demonstrated that it could fly and land in the atmosphere like airplanes, but the Enterprise never flew in space. The shuttle was originally to be named the Constitution, but a write-in campaign by fans of the television series "Star Trek" persuaded officials to rename it in honor of the show's main starship. NASA sent the shuttle on a tour of Europe and Canada in 1983, and it appeared at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. The craft made a brief return to service as a ground test vehicle in 1984 before retiring to the Smithsonian's collection in 1985. NASA is preparing to fly Space Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles sometime in the second half of the year. The final remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is being readied for display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The other two shuttles in the NASA program, Challenger and Columbia, were destroyed in flight. source:
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