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Space shuttle Enterprise lands in New York for museum display
Photos credit: Smithsonian Institution / Mark Avino and NASA / Robert Markowitz / Bill Ingalls
Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted on top of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, lands at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. |
NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flight crew, who flew Enterprise to New York, receives a heroes welcome at JFK Airport in New York. |
Among the 1,500 guests invited to John F. Kennedy International Airport were former crew members of the USS Intrepid World War II aircraft carrier. The Intrepid, now a sea, air and space museum, will display space shuttle Enterprise. |
Actor Leonard Nimoy, who played the starship Enterprise's science officer Spock, helps welcome space shuttle Enterprise to New York. |
Joe Engle, one of four NASA astronauts who flew space shuttle Enterprise for a series of approach and landing tests in 1977, speaks at the orbiter's arrival ceremony at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. |
NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) crew, who flew space shuttle Enterprise to New York, poses in front of the air- and spacecraft duo. |
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