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Campaign, what happened, jenna? jenna: after viewers of the "popular science" fiction show got word of that, they streeted this write-in campaign to the white house. they wrote all the letters to the white house to change the name to enterprise. that is how we have the name enterprise for this special craft instead of the constitution. it does, haves a different ring to it, doesn't it, jon. jon: didn't fly into space as jenna mentioned but they needed the craft to be able to practice and test the landing capabilities of this highly-complex spacecraft. it was, come back to earth to land as a kb...

Museum at pier 86 in midtown. astronaut captain mark kelly, former commander joining us this morning to walk us through all this. mark i have interesting facts about enterprise i want to get out there to everybody. people recognize the name enterprise, this craft was named after the fictional star shift enterprise from "star trek" in the 196 0s. this is not the first time it has flown around new york city. didn't land but you saw this in the 1980s, if i heard you correctly? >> yeah, i did. i can't remember when it was in the 80s, but i remember being at school at u.s. merchant marine academy a...