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And then it was the vehicle to see how well the space shuttle flies in the atmosphere, how well it flies on top of the 747. we needed to prove quo do that. was also the vehicle that was first attached to solid rocket boosters and external tank and taken to the launch pad. it has no engines, no orbital maneuvering system enengines. after the challenger, there was a thought to take enterprise and configure it for space flight but instead we took the spare parts from the construction of discovery, and built endeavour, that seemed to be the easier thing to do and made most sense. >> we continue to...

Doing. it's a matter of getting the public interest so we can have the programs. >> mark, real quickly, i need to ask you how your wife, gabby giffords is doing. >> gabby is doing really well. she is in therapy most days. she is back in houston right now, we're hoping to get back to tucson more often, but she is keeping busy, working hard, in a great mood. >> captain mark kelly former nasa astronauts. we don't get to talk to astronauts enough on this program. thank you for joining us and send our best to your wife. for complete and full recovery. wish you the best, thank you. >> i'll tell her ...

Original plan was to name it constitution, and there was a lot of people out there that were fans of star trek that wanted to see it named enterprise and president ford made the decision to change the name. >> trekkies have a lot of power, mark. >> apparently they do. >> explain to all of us so you saw this in the note in front of me, passing over the big apple on the way back from the paris air show, june 10th, 1983. what were your dreams and your goals about being an astronaut? >> well, at that point i was planning ongoing in the navy to be a navy pilot, with the hope that maybe i could beco...

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...