Exhibit now open through June 16, 2013
This special exhibition
Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer explores Enterprise’s critical role in the development of the space shuttle program.
In 1976, NASA unveiled a new type of space vehicle. The space shuttle was a reusable spacecraft that launched as a rocket and landed on a runway like an airplane. NASA intended that the space shuttle would usher in a new era of frequent and cost-effective spaceflights. The orbiter
Enterprise, the first of these revolutionary spacecraft, was a test vehicle whose important contributions to the shuttle program were realized within Earth’s atmosphere.
In July 2012,
Enterprise joined the collection of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Hurricane Sandy damaged the Museum’s Space Shuttle Pavilion. As a result,
Enterprise itself is not currently on public display.
Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer provides a brief introduction to
Enterprise with compelling artifacts of the era, archival images, and video clips to illustrate the history and significance of this prototype orbiter.
The exhibition celebrates the pilots and engineers who contributed to the
Enterprise story, as well as the technological innovations that helped to make
Enterprise an icon of the space program.
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See Your Photos on Display in our Exhibit
Send us your photos! This exhibition includes photos crowdsourced from the public to document Enterprise’s remarkable journey from experimental orbiter in the 1970’s to its inspiring trip to Intrepid in 2012..
To include your photo, click here or tag your photo in Instagram or Twitter with #IntrepidShuttle |
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Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer is on display in our Hangar Deck 2 Gallery and is free with general admission.
Please note that the space shuttle Enterprise is not on display until the Space Shuttle Pavilion reopens July10, 2013 on the Flight Deck of Intrepid.