It’s one final trip for the Space Shuttle Enterprise, which floats across the Hudson from New Jersey today to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan’s West Side.
It would normally take a shuttle traveling 17,500 miles per hour just a fraction of a second to cover the distance — but the Enterprise is getting a lift on a barge before it’s craned aboard the WWII-era carrier.
And it’s a fitting home: Intrepid has historic ties to NASA’s space-flight program; it served as a recovery ship for retrieving astronauts when they splashed down in the Pacific years ago.
The museum is berthed on Pier 86 by West 46th Street, steps from Times Square. Starting July 19, the Intrepid’s Space Shuttle Pavilion will be open for visitors.
Give the ship and the shuttle a visit.