The Space Shuttle Enterprise has journeyed to its final resting place, sailing along New York City waters on a barge.
Crowds gathered to watch the craft being transported to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
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2. Hundreds flocked to the Hudson to see the shuttle, which never actually flew in space.
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3. Enterprise was used from 1977 to test the original shuttle design and
as it never ventured into space it was not fitted with a heat shield.
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4. The Enterprise passes the Statue of Liberty on its way to the Intrepid Sea,
Air and Space museum on the west side of Manhattan.
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5. Earlier in the week Enterprise sustained some minor damage to a wing tip while
it was being towed from JFK airport to a temporary holding area in New Jersey.
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6. Fortunately the incident caused minimal damage as the Intrepid museum said that the dent was merely "cosmetic".
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7. Enterprise is not the only shuttle to have been placed into museum retirement- Atlantis and
Endeavour are going to the Kennedy Space Center [Florida] and the California Science Center [LA] respectively.
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8. Space Shuttle Discovery is currently at the Smithsonian museum in Virginia,
taking a well earned rest having been the most used shuttle over 27 years of its use.
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9. On its arrival to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum Enterprise was crane lifted from the barge.
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10. Crowds gathered to watch the Enterprise being carefully lifted from the barge ahead of its internment
at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum.
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12. The Enterprise, pictured here in April on a fly-by of New York.
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