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Space Shuttle Enterprise Damaged by Superstorm Sandy [PICS]
It's really sad that a national historic treasure such as this is being stored in what amounts to (borrowed) a bounce house. Twice this artifact has been damaged since being relocated. The Enterprise should be housed in a protective structure. Sigh... (mashable.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wright Patterson AFB - in Dayton, Ohio the home of the Wright Brothers houses the Air Force space museum, including most presidential planes from FDR's through JFK's. They wanted it badly and treat their planes like the treasures they are. They got a "piece" of something which is a big nothing. The bureaucrats who decided to put these things outside ought to be gone by noon, but they won't be.
I live 20 mins away from the Air Force Museum...and it REALLY is a shame.
Anything that leaves their collection exposed to the elements needs to have a good hard look taken before getting something as important as the Enterprise. I've seen pics of their A-12, and some of them show it in horrible condition. They need to build a structure of some kind and protect them, instead of letting them slowly rot.
the intrepid museum has a thus far terrible track record in regards to caring for their artifacts. do some research into their care for the concorde british airways loaned them. they had no business getting a shuttle when so many more capable institutions were available.
Agreed. As an aviation enthusiast, and former IT admin in flight test at the AFFTC, Edwards AFB, Ca, I was shocked to see the condition of some of the aircraft on static display when I visited Intrepid years ago.
They do not know how to properly curate historical aircraft and no historical aircraft, yet alone OV-101, should be left exposed to the elements on the deck of Intrepid.
The argument that New York was chosen because it is an "easy drive" for half the country's population is ludicrous. Between Discovery at the Smithsonian, and Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center, there are already two orbiters on the east coast and within a reasonable drive for the residents of the east coast population centers.
With Endeavour in California, near where it and all of the other shuttles were built, and shuttles in Washington DC and the Kennedy Space Center, that leaves residents of the mid-country with no way to see one of the Shuttles without driving a thousand miles or more. The logical choice would have been to place Enterprise at either Dayton or Houston. The decision to place Enterprise on the Intrepid was ENTIRELY political and many of the established rules for their placement were waived in order to make it happen.
@ Ira Rampil, Who cares if the LM's were built in New York. That does not entitle New York to a shuttle all of which were built in Palmdale, CA. New York's, and Grumman's, aviation history are already on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island. LM-13 is on display there. If you think Intrepid deserves a piece of the space program, maybe you should lobby to have LM-13 moved to the deck of the Intrepid where it too can be exposed to the elements.
They do not know how to properly curate historical aircraft and no historical aircraft, yet alone OV-101, should be left exposed to the elements on the deck of Intrepid.
The argument that New York was chosen because it is an "easy drive" for half the country's population is ludicrous. Between Discovery at the Smithsonian, and Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center, there are already two orbiters on the east coast and within a reasonable drive for the residents of the east coast population centers.
With Endeavour in California, near where it and all of the other shuttles were built, and shuttles in Washington DC and the Kennedy Space Center, that leaves residents of the mid-country with no way to see one of the Shuttles without driving a thousand miles or more. The logical choice would have been to place Enterprise at either Dayton or Houston. The decision to place Enterprise on the Intrepid was ENTIRELY political and many of the established rules for their placement were waived in order to make it happen.
@ Ira Rampil, Who cares if the LM's were built in New York. That does not entitle New York to a shuttle all of which were built in Palmdale, CA. New York's, and Grumman's, aviation history are already on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island. LM-13 is on display there. If you think Intrepid deserves a piece of the space program, maybe you should lobby to have LM-13 moved to the deck of the Intrepid where it too can be exposed to the elements.
The way they awarded cities a shuttle was a complete joke!!! here in Seattle we had a facility ready for the shuttle and its at the Boeing museum of flight ...Hmm didnt Boeing make parts for the shuttle?