Enterprise

Shuttle Enterprise Transits NYC Skyline on a Barge

June 5, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter On Sunday, June 3, throngs of New Yorkers, Jerseyites and more witnessed one of those ultra rare astronomical events – The Space Shuttle Enterprise’s Transit of the NYC Skyline ! NASA’s Space Shuttle Enterprise completed the first leg of her final [...]

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Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

May 11, 2012

In Star Trek lore, the first Constitution Class Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within [...]

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Surprise Shuttle Landing Video!

April 27, 2012

Talk about the shot of a lifetime! A Canadian airline passenger waiting on the tarmac at JFK this morning got an incredible view of the shuttle Enterprise landing! Just…wow. Video by YouTube user “daujla2″. (Hat tip to the New York Post.) Remove this ad

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Enterprise Arrives at the Big Apple

April 27, 2012

Icons of America are captured together in a fantastic photo by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, taken on the morning of April 27, 2012 from Jersey City, NJ. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building… and Enterprise, the first space shuttle, seen as it was ferried toward its eventual new home at the Intrepid Sea, [...]

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