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Own dream home. young will resume his testimony today and will also expect to hear from his wife. >> he got himself an entertainment system and a pool. >> ok. that's maybe not legal. it will be skyscrapers and a space shuttle in new york city today. the shuttle enterprise will be making low altitude flyovers some of the city's biggest landmarks including the statue of liberty much the shuttle will be atop a 747. it's part of nasa's process of wrapping up the shuttle program. stay tuned, we'll have a live report on the special trip in the next half-hour. brian is very excited about that. >> no,...

>> so no, only in enterprise has there been a crew that have flown in the space shuttle when it was on top of the 747. there were some active test flights where it stayed connected to the airplane, i think they did three of those, this was in the late 1970s, and then five flights where space shuttle enterprise was released from the top of the 747 and those were the approach and landing tests, landed at the runway at edwards air force base. when the shuttle is ferried, there is no crew in the orbiter, only the 747 crew on board ferrying the space shuttle. >> mark, remind us why the enterprise i...

Became a shuttle commander, what do you think fate played in all this, you having the opportunity to see the enter surprise fly by back in the early 1980s? >> yeah, that was a big surprise, and you say this is the final resting place for enterprise but we thought that with the smithsonian, too, you never know, maybe we'll be sitting out some dago flying by again. >> there was a lot of debate over where, which places around the country would be allowed and would be granted the opportunity to have one of the shuttles, and there was a lot of debate whether or not new york would be getting one and...

Enterprise is different, it was used for tests, it is incredible for people to have the things up close. >> i want to give everybody a little back story on enterprise, rolled out in 1976, first built, never flew in space, and marks a you said, it was used for the high altitude test flights. as a gen-xer, what do you think it means to kids that the shuttle program is disbanded but having the opportunity to see the shuttles for thens, to continue our american fascination with space? >> after the columbia accident in 2003, nasa and the administration made a decision to retire the space shuttle. s...

They would have survived, they are on their way to getting the capability back. >> you left nasa after the final shuttle command a while back. how much do you miss it? >> i do miss it. nasa is a great place to work. it was the right time for me to leave. i will always miss having the opportunity to fly in space. it is an incredible experience to be blasted off the planet in a rocket ship and stay in space two weeks and fly the shuttle home as a glider is something i will never forget. >> again if you're joining us, talking with captain mark kelly, former astronaut with nasa, talking about the ...