Enterprise lands in New York

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The Space Shuttle Enterprise has landed in New York and look who was on board! Ok, they weren't. But this magnificent 1976 photo, previously seen on BB, turned up today in a CNN.com article pegged on the Shuttle's journey to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. "Shuttle Enterprise has a 'Star Trek' legacy"

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This photo is the epitome of the mid ’70s. It’s remarkable.
- Godfree
  
  Time for the leisure suit to make a comeback, I say.
- Brood-X
  
  The worst dressers on and off the set.
GrymRpr

All way’s wondered where ole Shatner was….
- Donald Petersen
  
  He’s still inside. They couldn’t pry him from the captain’s seat.
  
  “No, Bill. This one’s warp engines are pretend, too. Just like yours.”
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  I believe that he felt his presence as a mere actor on a TV show would diminish the work of the real captains and scientists of NASA.
daredelvis

I am really not a fan of Texas, but this shuttle should have been sent to Johnson Space Center.
- Just_Ok
  
  no, to some field in Iowa.
  - .
    
    Riverside already has an Enterprise. I suppose they could add a second one.
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=riverside+iowa+park&ll=41.48058,-91.576366&spn=0.019355,0.031071&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=us&hq=park&hnear=Riverside,+Washington,+Iowa&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=41.48065,-91.576264&panoid=2QXAMeSo_nSylNDDFxkYDw&cbp=12,350.93,,0,-5.97
vonbobo

Groovy man!
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I remember seeing the Enterprise land in Denver back in 1977. Such a strong memory, a spaceship landing in my hometown!! Also, is it me, or is Bones looking just a little more FAB-ulous than Mr. Sulu?
- Donald Petersen
  
  Koenig’s and Nimoy’s threads are ones I’d still wear with pride today.
  
  Well. Not so much “pride” as “regrettable lack of shame.”
miasm

Terry Wogan, roguishly handsome as ever.
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

Disco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Wow, I remember seeing that same photograph, in B&W, in a 1976/77 model rocketry magazine.
Eric Mueller

Actually Leonard Nimoy WAS here this morning to greet it at JFK! Live Long and Prosper.
- LinkMan
  
  Indeed
  - Just_Ok
    
    It was the logical choice. They needs of the many… yoda yoda yoda
http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

We saw it from high-up in our building at work today in NYC… right when it went over the Hudson. I got misty-eyed. I had a die-cast shuttle toy when I was a kid that was so played with that the white paint was gone…
Just_Ok

Bet they never even thought to invite Brent Spiner.
penguinchris

This photo makes me smile every time I see it. One of my favorite photos.
Tyler Riddle

Can we please allow the shuttles to retire quietly, with their head hanging low? They were flawed machines before and after they killed astronauts. The flaws in the machines were exasperated by management living in a dangerous reality distortion field. The Shuttles, while technically sophisticated and marvels, were broken by design once the military got their hands on the designs. The Shuttle could no longer hit the launch targets and could no longer compete on price as promised – they only were used for commercial launches after the US Government subsidized the cost to other nations just so that the Russians wouldn’t be launching as much stuff into space.

Obama glorifying the Shuttles with out an explanation of what was wrong and why is an appeal to nationalism just as much as the Republicans trying to re-animate Reagan’s corpse while reprogramming him to have content that matches what they say today, not what he said back then.

If the Shuttle was so damn good then why are we replacing it with designs from the Apollo era that are cheaper and more safe?
- mat catastrophe
  
  Shh. I don’t think we’re allowed to be critical at an important time like this!
- quitterjunior
  
  I agree with Mat. You’re missing the real miracle here. Those were interplanetary sex bombs. Candid, no less! Dig the pant diameters. Collars both mauve and taupe. Ay que medallion. The kerchief. The umber-ly austere/unpopular guy. How dare that Obama glorify the last non-tourist manned space mission? I’m really sorry if you’re an Apollo widow, Tyler, but otherwise if an astronaut gets hurt/killed on this mission then I guess you – win?
  - Tyler Riddle
    
    What? Win? If we could put out technology that isn’t used wrong and doesn’t kill people, that seems like winning. Ignoring what went wrong, why, and not fixing it seems like losing.
    
    Whose team are you on?