NASA Transports Space Shuttle Enterprise to New York

[@olympicnut]

It is not correct to call Enterprise a "mock-up." She flew the Approach & Landing tests in 1977 and has an actual airframe. OV-101 was also used extensively to check out the many facilities needed to support the shuttle and was used for vibration testing to validate the overall design. She was a true pathfinder vehicle and paved the way for Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis & Endeavour to make actual spaceflights. Enterprise is an important part of shuttle history.

[@ThatGuyE1M1]

Something tells me that luggage is too big for the overhead compartment.

[@AcrossTheRiverStix]

i would like to mention that you've got a darn good pilot for that 747! i don't think anyone has mentioned this anywhere yet. but i would like to say it now!! T_T I love you Shuttles

[@AmurG2]

"Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise."

[@mustang6172]

Hangers, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. It's continuing mission: to sit in a museum for the amusement of tourists, to be ignored by angsty teenagers, to boldly gather dust where no glider has gathered dust before.

[@KittySN]

So shiny and new! Like out of a cereal box! ;)

[@geomodelrailroader]

the Enterprise feels at home up there on 905s back. this STA was the one that dropped Enterprise in 1977 during the STS Drop Test. now Enterprise will fly on top of 905 again for the last time.

[@MartinDrescher95]

DAAAAAAMN, i would like to sit in the shuttle when its flying on top of the plane. Feels like a astronaut, me gusta

[@CynthiaisSissy]

I live here, and although this seems like such an exciting event, it feels much more like a mourning for me. I get this longing in my stomach and a tear in my eye. Enterprise was ours, belonged to the Space Coast and was virtually what my Florida means to me. Watching her fly away is like waving goodbye to what once made our are area vivacious, prosperous and awe-inspiring. Brevard's economy is dying and America no longer has control of the deep unknown-space.

[@TheClaudiosalazar]

I love it

[@420darklotus]

None of them can anymore. Enterprise was just a mock shuttle anyways. This is one of the very few times it has ever been in the air.

[@GaminCro]

I actually agree with you.

[@stngvsop]

finest comment "Live long and prosper"

[@qq331002556]

thanks

[@v12tommy]

I still don't see why NYC gets a space shuttle orbiter. What have they done for the shuttle program? Florida and LA make sense, as does the Smithsonian, but why send the only remaining shuttle to NYC instead of Houston? I'm impartial to both NYC and Houston as I have never been to either, but Houston just seemed like a much more logical choice.

[@TechXSoftware]

omg 8:30 its William bell!

[@xorlb]

Isn't that like putting an F-22 Raptor on display?

[@AcrossTheRiverStix]

OH I personally would like add that my backyard is free for Atlantis anytime :D (it's my hubble fixer-upper and also my favorite Stargate series!!)

[@101southsideboy]

it still seems strange to me today as it did the first time almost 40 years ago. to see the shuttle flying piggy back on top of another aircraft

[@hackneysaregreat]

welcome home

[@SimonBerton]

Thanks NASA!!!

[@yoshi_yt]

good movie!!

[@Section31Captain]

As a NASA buff, I was hoping Intrepid got any shuttle. As a 9/11 family member that lost one of the NYPD police officers, Stephen Driscoll, I was hoping for Endeavour. As a die hard Trekkie, I am extremely proud that Intrepid and the people of NYC were awarded Enterprise. I still cannot put into words my feelings as I watched her fly. I will do my best to make sure everyone I know will "Boldly Go" to see her. THANK YOU NASA! Ex astris, scientia!

[@BlackBird7790NWR]

Discovery was already displayed a few weeks back. Sorry,man...

[@FSProduction154]

you can see the engine on the 747 going up and down

[@VicariousReality7]

It is like a sucker fish, stuck to a plane

[@v12tommy]

Um, last time I checked, all of the banks that received TARP funds, paid the money back with interest, with the exception of General Motors. It would help if you did a little fact checking before jumping to conclusions and making false statements.

[@41angelfire]

oh and so what if theres aliens out there ,we will be just as strange to them as they are to us.

[@ralfytm]

lol, is that William Bell from Fringe ??? :o

[@ordi75]

lol, if you look closely, you can see the wings flexing on the Boeing

[@Matizor]

yo dawg, I heard you like flying...

[@420darklotus]

I understand that but it was never actually used...i.e. never made it to space. All I was trying to say.

[@rogamer2102]

Good zork nasa

[@randomdanishman]

"my space shuttle brings all boys to the yard"

[@41angelfire]

i think it is high time,we build a massive ship with bunch of smaller ships.just like what we see on tv and explore the other planets.make sure its big enough to hold families...etc kind of like a large moving world.stop wasting our time studying the small rocks on planets near by.lets get out there.its like we have all this new tech.and it just stops there no one knows what else to do.lets build space ships BIG ONES.

[@priyonjoni]

where's leonard nimoy's full speech?

[@Bluetorchproductions]

I envy all those in at JFK who got to see the shuttle come into land

[@JamesBerg86]

So you sent at least one of these historical ships to a museum, but I think you had at least 3 of these. If you could let me get one of those shuttles if you're not using them anymore?

[@randomdanishman]

dang :P

[@SR71_Blackbird]

That's where I know him from!! I couldn't figure it out. It's Leonard Nimoy who played Spock on Star Trek.

[@LucasKussowski]

Long video, skipped to the cool parts and saved the very best to last...LEONARD NIMOY!!! :)

[@AmazingAirshowVideos]

They waited all week because of bad weather to do the NYC flyover & instead of waiting a lousy 24 hours more so kids could watch it outside of school on a Saturday, they just HAD to do it on Friday to spoil the fun & inspiration of a million kids in the NYC area. Pathetic.

[@babblesandbubbles]

this is so sad...

[@ajjs02]

They should have had gopro's stuck all over her for the final flight.:/

[@wii2050]

Nasa should build ten new shuttles just for fun and as tourist vehicles for rich people.

[@RoboticusMusic]

UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE

[@priyonjoni]

it was a constitution class space shuttle lol

[@Kolkat123]

thanks