"It's about the stories of people who flew in it," Boeh said. It's a little piece of home in the big city, shown through the history of NASA. Inside the museum's Shuttle Pavilion, Houston is on display. But when the episode The Galileo Seven was supposed to unveil. Matt Jefferies had anticipated the need for a flight deck or hangar deck when he designed the original Enterprise, providing space in the aft section of the engineering hull for just such a location. People expect that they're going to get inside." FORGOTTEN TREK: Creating The Original Enterprise's Shuttlebay. Seen in Star Trek: Enterprise season 2, episode 24, 'First Flight,' a painting of the USS Enterprise XCV 330 revealed it to be a probe-like vessel with a. There's a replica shuttle on top, but that has been converted into a marvelous experience where you can go inside. Excluding the real-life space shuttle launched by NASA in 1977, the oldest known example of a space-faring ship to bear the Enterprise name was briefly hinted at during Star Trek: Enterprise. "But what you have in Houston, you guys have something I'm really jealous of. Over the thirty-year course of the space shuttle program, the shuttles and their crews assembled parts of the International Space Station, deployed and serviced. "There were just so many museums that wanted one of the vehicles," said Eric Boeh, the museum's curator of aviation. More than 1 million visitors come to see Enterprise each year.
It's Space City, after all.īut, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City was chosen instead. Which is why, back in 2012, when Enterprise was looking for a permanent home to be displayed for the public, many Houstonians thought their city should get the honor. Instead, it did hundreds of approach and landing test flights, and some of them took place in Houston.
The shuttle was built by NASA in the '70s. SEE ALSO: Astros players explore New York City on their day off The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the first of a new kind of spacecraft, made the slow 3.5-mile trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the launch pad, atop the same Mobile Transporter that had carried Saturn V’s during the Apollo Program. Housed at the Intrepid Museum, the space shuttle Enterprise is the largest space artifact in the American Northeast. The Space Shuttle Enterprise is located at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Pier 86 in Midtown, about nine miles south of Yankee Stadium, where the Astros are facing the Yankees in Games 4 and 5.
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NEW YORK, New York (KTRK) - Astros fans are taking advantage of their free days in New York City before the night games.Īnyone feeling a little homesick? There's a piece of NASA history right in the heart of the Big Apple that Houstonians may not know about. William Shatner, the 90-year-old veteran of countless imaginary space voyages playing Star Treks Captain Kirk, blasted off for real Wednesday, becoming the oldest person to reach the final. While covering the Astros in New York, ABC13's Courtney Fischer got into the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to check out the one space artifact that got away from the Space City's grasp.
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