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Chasing The Little Prince in New York City

August 10, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   I didn’t expect to find a story about a stranded aviator and a cosmos-travelling boy in the United Nations bookstore in New York [...]

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Repaired Space Shuttle Enterprise to set Sail on Final Voyage

June 6, 2012

Enterprise, post boo-boo and postponed a day by rainy weather, should arrive at the Intrepid today ! The final leg of the final voyage of Space Shuttle Enterprise is due to conclude on Wednesday, June 6 with a journey by barge up the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side to her permanent new home at [...]

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Shuttle Enterprise Transits NYC Skyline on a Barge

June 5, 2012

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 voyage – a seagoing journey by barge from John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport [...]

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Millions Mesmerized by Shuttle Enterprise over Freedom’s Beacon in New York

April 28, 2012

Millions upon Millions of Humans have passed through Freedoms’s Beacon at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in the New York Metropolitan area in hope of a better life for themselves and their families. Today, on Friday April 27, Freedom’s Beacon mesmerized millions of the World’s Citizens anew – and in an unforgettable way [...]

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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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