The prototype space shuttle Enterprise was damaged on the way to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. The shuttle was en route to a New Jersey marina, its first destination on a two-part trip, when the tip of the wing scraped a piling in Jamaica Bay.
Wing of space shuttle Enterprise (left) scraping against piling
Officials blamed “a sudden microburst of wind, measured at 35 knots.”
Space Shuttle en Route
Astronauts can pilot these aircraft as they hurtle into outerspace, and guide them safely back again, but apparently the tri-state transit prove more daunting.
The space shuttle Enterprise passes the Statue of Liberty as it makes the final leg of its journey to its new Manhattan home
The space age was ushered in half a century ago when President Kennedy challenged Americans “achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
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