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Old Posted Apr 21, 2012, 2:34 PM
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This is an update from NASA about the delivery/fly over of Enterprise. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tr...postponed.html
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Space shuttle Enterprise's New York flyover postponed by rain



By Tomas Dinges
April 21, 2012

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The likelihood of rain has postponed Monday morning’s scheduled flyover of the space shuttle Enterprise over New York City, NASA officials said yesterday.

The shuttle was to be flown from Washington, D.C., atop a modified 747 and conduct several flyovers of Manhattan before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. But rain is forecast for New York City and Washington on Monday. With its awkward payload, the jet is sensitive to precipitation and as a result, NASA managers and officials from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where the shuttle will be delivered, decided yesterday to delay the flight.

Officials said they will review weather forecasts and announce a new flight date "as soon as practical." In the weeks after landing in New York City, the shuttle will be placed on a barge and moved up the Hudson River to the Intrepid museum, where it will become part of a permanent exhibition scheduled to open this summer.
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Old Posted Apr 27, 2012, 9:33 AM
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Fri Forecast: It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A Space Shuttle!



April 26, 2012 by A. Staff

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■As it first approaches the area, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) flies up the Hudson River past the west side of Manhattan at 1,500 feet, and then climbs to 3,000 after it passes the George Washington Bridge.

■SCA will then make a left-handed U-turn when it reaches the Tappan Zee Bridge to fly down the Hudson, descending back to 1,500 ft when it reaches the Alpine radio tower near the New York/New Jersey border.

■SCA continues past Manhattan down to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

■Once it passes south of the Verrazano, the next part of SCA’s itinerary depends on which runways are in use at Newark Airport.


http://www.nycaviation.com/where-to-...e-in-new-york/





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Enroute to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Space Shuttle Enterprise is tentatively scheduled to fly to New York on Friday, April 27, between 10:30am and 11:30am, riding piggyback on a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

This once-in-a-lifetime flight will be visible to millions of people as the Shuttle/Carrier combo fly over much of the New York City area at low altitude (1000-3000 ft) before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The five boroughs will see the most action, but areas as far north as Tarrytown and Nyack, NY, and as far east as Westbury, NY, will get some shuttle love as well.

On the map above, the blue line represents an approximation of the planned path, green thumbtacks mark the best spots to spot the action, and the white diamonds mark key landmarks on the path.

Based on an FAA flight itinerary we’ve obtained, here are 17 spots in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester where we think you’re most likely to get a good view.


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Shuttle to buzz NYC today


By BILL SANDERSON
April 27, 2012

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Everyone in the metro New York area will have a front-row seat today for the space shuttle Enterprise’s low-altitude grand tour of the region — on a journey leading eventually to its new home on the USS Intrepid. “This will be just about the most exciting plane-spotting event for New Yorkers ever,” said Matt Molnar, editor of the aviation-enthusiast Web site NYCAviation.com. The shuttle — piggybacked atop a Boeing 747 — will take off from Dulles Airport near Washington at about 9:30 a.m. and is expected to arrive over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at about 10:30.

The plane will land on Kennedy Airport’s 14,572-foot-long Runway 31L. The shuttle will be taken off the 747 in the next few weeks. In June, it’s expected to be transferred to a barge and floated back up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Museum, where it’s expected to draw 1.3 million visitors per year. The museum expects to open the shuttle to the public in July.




It will look fantastic when its new home is built.

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Great news!!!

Looks Like All Systems Go for Space Shuttle Museum
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Awesomeeee. I'm definitely going to be posting up on the Hudson River Park starting around 1030 looking for a space shuttle.
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It should be arriving in the area very soon...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/n...0,448177.story
Shuttle Enterprise takes off for New York -- and a new home




By Rene Lynch
April 27, 2012


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The NASA shuttle is getting the ultimate piggy-back ride to its new home in New York City this morning, setting the stage for a dramatic flyover of the world's most famous skyline. The Enterprise was affixed atop a specially modified 747 that took off moments ago from Dulles International Airport near Washington, headed for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

There will be plenty of photo ops before it lands: The aircraft will fly near a variety of landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, although the exact flight plan has not been revealed. NASA plans to live Tweet the event.

New York's newest tourist attraction was named after the fictional Starship Enterprise from "Star Trek." (Among those Tweeting about the Enterprise's arrival Friday morning? Leonard Nimoy, who, of course, played Spock on "Star Trek.") The Enterprise is one of four NASA shuttles that are going into retirement at various places throughout the United States, after a fierce political battle over which cities would get one.
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Went for a run and saw there's 2-3 floors of vertical structural steel in the ground for the new Whitney Museum. Don't usually take a camera running with me, so no photos but something to keep an eye on.
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^ It is.


Anther shot of the Shuttle Enterprise making an entrance into the City.


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Is the Space Shuttle up for display yet? I'm going to NY in a few weeks, and would like to go see it if it is.
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^^No, but you could literally see it from the arterial road that takes you through JFK, just sitting there on the tarmac near a hanger.
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Went for a run and saw there's 2-3 floors of vertical structural steel in the ground for the new Whitney Museum. Don't usually take a camera running with me, so no photos but something to keep an eye on.

i believe thats the highline hq part of the plan --- the museum to be is still a construction pit.
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Man, with all the new skyscrapers, museums, arenas, residentials, and low-rises, so many of New York City's uglier or empty areas will be filled out. I love this city almost as much as Pittsburgh
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from today -- here is the highline park hq and whitney progress:



the concrete is poured for the whitney basement


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what the heck couple more

who could resist, right?!!





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Space Shuttles Move Through NYC and Houston Sunday: How to Watch

by Tariq Malik
02 June 2012

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A NASA space shuttle prototype and high-fidelity shuttle replica will make some big moves in New York and Houston on Sunday (June 2), and residents in both cities have a chance to spot the winged spacecraft — one by sea and the other by land. In New York City, NASA's space shuttle Enterprise will be visible from some of the city's beaches and coast when it takes a barge from Jamaica Bay to the New York Harbor. The prototype shuttle, which never flew in space but was used in pivotal landing tests, is destined to go on public display Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Today, the shuttle will be craned onto its barge for the upcoming sea ride.

For New Yorkers, Enterprise will begin its barge trip at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT), when the tugboat pulling the ship leaves John F. Kennedy International Airport for the New York Harbor.......After shipping out from JFK, Enterprise will make its way toward New York Harbor by traveling along the shore of Queens and Brooklyn. The planned route will bring Enterprise by the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at 3:30 p.m. EDT, slip by Coney Island at 4:19 p.m. EDT and then pass under the Verrazano Bridge at 5:34 p.m. EDT before pulling into a temporary dock in New Jersey's Port Elizabeth.

This is only the first leg of Enterprise's sea trip to the Intrepid. On Tuesday (June 5), the shuttle will finish the journey by leaving Port Elizabeth at 9:15 a.m. EDT, passing the Statue of Liberty at 9:50 a.m. EDT, floating up the Hudson River by the World Trade Center's Freedom Tower at 10:40 a.m. EDT and arriving at the Intrepid museum at about 11:30 a.m. ED
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The space shuttle Enterprise is towed past a pier filled with spectators at Coney Island in New York, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The prototype space shuttle that arrived
in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea, to it's final resting place at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan.




People gather to watch and take pictures as the space shuttle Enterprise is towed on a barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York, Sunday, June 3, 2012.
The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City earlier this spring is headed to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan.








Spectators watch the space shuttle Enterprise as it is towed past a beach at Coney Island in New York, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The prototype space shuttle that arrived
in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea, to it's final resting place at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan.




Spectators watch the space shuttle Enterprise as it is towed past a beach at Coney Island in New York, Sunday, June 3, 2012




The space shuttle Enterprise is towed on a barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York.





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Any chance they might delay the move until tomorrow? I will be staying near the Hudson River tomorrow night, and would like to see it being moved myself.
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Any chance they might delay the move until tomorrow? I will be staying near the Hudson River tomorrow night, and would like to see it being moved myself.
sighhh - willy willy willy. we have something called the internets to find out things like that:

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/n...home-1.3765410

but you can always go over there and have a look
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