Posted Sep 29, 2011, 4:52 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/ny...l?ref=nyregion
After Winning Coveted Shuttle, Museum Changes the Plan for It
Officials hope to build a museum to house the shuttle Enterprise on a parking lot opposite the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
The new plan faces several obstacles, and one lawmaker says NASA may have to revisit its selection process.
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
September 28, 2011
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...five months after the Intrepid was awarded the shuttle Enterprise, museum officials have turned their attention from the end of the newly revamped pier to a parking lot on 12th Avenue, across the cacophonous West Side Highway. They envision converting the lot, which is surrounded by H & H Bagels, a car wash, storage warehouses and a strip club, into a space-themed museum that would serve as the home of the Enterprise and draw as many as one million visitors a year.
The museum’s president, Susan Marenoff-Zausner, said in an interview that she envisioned a museum “with the shuttle as the primary tenant” but also with classrooms and laboratories for teaching schoolchildren and others about science and technology. “It would be a museum on that side of the highway, which we think could be a linchpin in beautifying the area,” she said.
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The Enterprise in 2003 at a Smithsonian Institution center in Virginia. The shuttle is scheduled to move to New York next year.
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