Page 7 - Shuttle Enterprise News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

150,000 pounds, the pilot that is flying the boeing, the modified 747, which is carrying it up here piggy-back style is a pilot named bill rickey, nasa aircraft operator, who has been based out of houston. mark, do you know bill? >> yeah, i do. he's one of our research pilots at johnson space center who flies the 747 but t-38 training airplane, probably flies another plane we have there. and these guys are the ones that ferry the shuttle around the country, sometimes will land the space shuttle at the edwards air force base and we have to get it back to the kennedy space center, this is the sa...

Able to get to see the enterprise making that double lap up and back again, and in through new jersey briefly and back over the city to be able to go to jfk, located in queens in and around just outside the metro area here in the city. mark, when we talk about the delicate process, have you ever witnessed that before, of the removal of how they do the separation process between one of the shuttles and the 747 that carries it? >> yeah, i have at the kennedy space center in florida when we had a vehicle that has come back from edwards air force base after landing there, there is an elaborate cra...

Support for more money for nasa, and maybe different missions, maybe going to asteroid or mars or the moon or sending people to mars, that is what we would have. so if we could get the public interest up and more engagement i think we could -- we could figure anything out. it's a matter of nasa having the resources to do it. i don't know to answer your question i'm not sure where we will be in 20 years, i hope we'll send the first person to walk on the planet mars by then. >> looking at where we've come, where we've come from and where we're going, and seeing the enthusiasm of the people we ha...

Display ready for visitors by july. if you're just joining us this morning, we're watching as the enterprise makes its way in the metro here in new york city, this flight took off this morning, from dulles airport roughly after 9:30 this morning, as you see the shuttle is piggy backed up north on a modified 747, and final destination will ultimately be the intrepid sea, air and space museum on pier 86 in midtown. fascinating how to think the next generation will consider space travel. as you point out, the future of space travel is changing a lot, and in your estimation, how do you see you bei...

Vehicle down on the pavement and tow it where it needs to go. this case to a barge you wouldn't want to take the space shuttle through the streets of new york city. >> could you imagine? >> it would be really difficult to get it to the intrepid taking it through the streets. >> the great thing is with the intrepid being over there on the hudson, pier 86, make it another spectacle for people to watch as you say, as the enterprise will be floated on that barge and arrive at the intrepid in june. the plan is for it to arrive there roughly in june, no specific date as of yet but have it ready for ...