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In manhattan. the enterprise cruised past the statue of liberty before arriving by barge at the intrepid sea, air, space museum tuesday. tip of a wing scraped piling to cause daniel. in 1977, enterprise used for series of approach and landing tests. it was originally to be named constitution. but a fierce letter writing campaign by star trek fans convinced white house officials to rename it after the ship of the iconic television program. from star trek to come ib books. thanks to the eagle eye comic loving viewers we realized grapevine failed to put a picture of the original green lat tern allen scott seen left in friday s story about the d.c. comic outing the character as gay. we showed the modern hero on the right said to be quite the lady s man. our apologies to both allen ....
World trade center before docking. but the journey started over a month ago, leaving aboard a nasa jumbo jet from thesmithsonian national air and space museum in virginia, after weather delayed its departure several times. enterprise was naped after a fictional starship from star trek. 122 feet long and pech feet high, it was a prototype and never actually went to space, but was used in the 1970s fiduciary approach and landing tests or alt flights. atlantis will go to kennedy space center in florida, discovery to thesmithsonian and endeavour to the california space center in los angeles. the intrepid will exhibit the space shuttle enterprise on the flight deck until a permanent display home can be made and open to the public on july 19. we are standing here overlooking the jamaica bay by the gill hodges memorial bridge. ....
Southern california, and the approach and landing test which enterprise flew were done at edwards air force base where nasa drieden is. i talked to my best friend and said we need to drive out there and take a look at this space shuttle because i d like to fly it some day. we drove out to the middle of the desert and drove up to the gate and said we d like to go see the space shuttle. jon: the figure in bell bottoms at the bottom of that shot. you re a little hard to see there, but that was you. that was me a little bit embarrassing, but that was the style of the day, the bell bottom blue jeans, 1978. jon: hey, i had it too. and you went onto fly as an astronaut. did you quit a chance to fly enterprise in the landing tests? no, the approach and landing tests were all done when that picture was taken. they were all completed in 1977, and nasa learned everything it needed to to proceed with the shuttle program to build the ....
enterprise is a very special vehicle and near and dear to those of us who were test pilots because it was used for the initial approach and landing tests. it flew just in that configuration, just like you re seeing it right now, on the back of a 747, and then the 747 pulled away, dropped underneath, and then the shuttle made its first approach and landing test. so it s my hope that students who see it out there at the pres intrepid are not only inspired to be space explorers, but hopefully a few of them would want to be test pilots. bill: i think your thoughts musting mixed today when you see this chapter unfold. are they? i think we all describe this moment as very bittersweet. it helps to see the tremendous honor that everyone is giving to the shuttle, because obviously it s an amazing engineering marvel and it really should be the pride of our country. ....