Shuttle Enterprise On Intrepid

[APG85]

Looks like she made it...

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060612a.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot ... 069672218/

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... urney?lite

[JOMiller]

I thought one of the conditions was it had to be inside a
climatically controlled building.

[BK]

I thought one of the conditions was it had to be inside a
climatically controlled building.

Yes, they have to build the bubble canopy around the shuttle. It is suppose to be completed by the July 19th public opening. The shuttle has to be cleaned from the exposure to saltwater by then too.

I still think it's silly to have Enterprise on Intrepid. After seeing the photos, it's an eyesore on the carrier and it's pointed ass-backwards to boot.

[cwmc]

Yeah,
It's very surprising that they would have it in the most populous city in the country rather than Bootstrap, Ohio or Anyonethere, Kansas. Los Angeles is another huge surprise, what with all of the people there.
Chris...

[Mike Bates]

You ever look at the number of people that go to the Air Force Museum compared to the Intrepid Museum?

Mike

[RickH]

You ever look at the number of people that go to the Air Force Museum compared to the Intrepid Museum?

That one is easy, Mike. NASA Dryden asked the USAF for two T-38Cs to upgrade their fleet. The USAF turned them down flat. I figure that if the USAF couldn't spare a couple of T-38s, then NASA couldn't spare one Shuttle for Dayton !

[Pat Carry]

You ever look at the number of people that go to the Air Force Museum compared to the Intrepid Museum?

Mike

What are the attendance figures?

[mustangdriver]

USS Intrepid -300,000 a year

NMUSAF-1,000,000 plus a year

Numbers taken from each of their websites

[APG85]

From the sacred halls of the Smithsonian Institution to a tent on the Hudson River facing Jersey...

[PbyCat-Guy]

What a poor decision in my opinion. Would've been better off in the NMUSAF, at least it would not have been damaged during transport. In photos of it on the barge, a lot of people weren't paying attention to it. You'd figure something that famous and important would have people stopping to look at it.

[mustangdriver]

They should put a steam engine and trigger from Roy Rogers on the deck as well.

[airknocker]

POLITICS!!!!!

[Misterg97]

During the arrival at Kennedy, Senator Chuck Schumer talked with pride and enjoyment on how, once the announcement was made to retire the shuttles, he immediately contacted Vice President Biden.

Here in SW Ohio, a large community of veterans it's being called "Not in Boehner's Back Yard" ...

[CH2Tdriver]

They should put....trigger from Roy Rogers on the deck as well.

Well since we're beating a dead horse here I would say that's rather appropriate.

[mustangdriver]

CH2Tdriver, I am sorry. You are more than likely right. Those of us close to museums that followed the rules and guidlines of NASA to get a shuttle and were then passed over still have a heavy heart. Even more so when the director of one of the museums that gets one says publicly, "We can barley take care of the planes we got." Then moments later gets a shuttle. Then you see a museum claim, "See we repaired it!" by spray painting black primer on the wing. It's hard. I am sure the folks at the Museum of Flight who actually built a building to meet the NASA requirements will agree. ALong with the folks in Houston. It's not just that our favorite museums got passed over, it's that what was the best route for preservation was ignored.