Photo: Will Van Dorp
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was built as a prototype. As such it never flew in space. That is not to say, however, that it hasn’t traveled. In April, we caught it on video taking a ride on a NASA 747 up the Hudson River to land in Kennedy Airport on its way to a permanent home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Yesterday, it took a short sea voyage by barge, out past Coney Island, up through the Verrazano Narrows Bridge before finally docking at Port Elizabeth, N.J. It will stay in Jersey until Tuesday. The shuttle goes on permanent display on July 19th. For more photos, check out Will van Dorp’s tugster blog. Video of the move after the jump.
Space Shuttle Enterprise sails past New York to its final destination
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Re: Port Elizabeth . . . no, Weeks Yard in Jersey City. It was exciting to see it travel by Weeks–if not royal–barge across some of the lesser known waters of NYC, ie, Jamaica Bay.
I just find it difficult to accept that the best place to put it is out in the weather on the deck of Intrepid. God only knows what the pollution in NYC will do to it in a couple of years.
It won’t be out in the weather. They are building a new pavilion that is opening July 19th. Until then it will be undercover in a temporary enclosure.