Enterprise floating in New York Harbor

[Yoda]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/04/space-shuttle-sails-through-new-york-harbor/?hpt=hp_c3

Just akward seeing the Enterprise transported this way..........

 

[Linguofreak]

From context, I thought the thread title referred to CVN-65.

 

[TMac3000]

So did I:lol:

 

[Hielor]

Whoops: http://jalopnik.com/5915618/a-new-york-barge-pilot-smashed-the-shuttles-wing

 

[Yoda]

That's just wonderful !
What's next; the crane dropped it accidentely while lifting it on the carrier ?
:facepalm:

 

[Codz]

"The most special of New York welcomes, the fender bender!":rofl:

 

[Fabri91]

And this follows the Concorde being parked somewhere, used as a playground, with its nose clipped of by a truck.

 

[EnDSchultz]

Fantastic. Tell that tug captain to bust up a few other pieces of American history while he's at it.

 

[theshhh]

Well now... shouldnt they hire a better driver?
and it first i thought it was the USS enterprise...
EDIT: wow... this quote: Thankfully, "the damage to the dock appears minimal."
they are concerend about a $100 dollar dock more than the million dollar space shuttle?

 

[cljohnston]

Oh, I'm sure they're gonna fix it up shiny... but they'd better take better care when Endeavour rolls into L.A.!

 

[EnDSchultz]

I also find it tragically amusing how they mention the damage to Enterprise is cosmetic and not structural.
...It's a museum piece. To be looked at. It will never fly again anyway. Cosmetics are all that matter for it now.

 

[N_Molson]

That tug/Shuttle stack is a curious meeting of technologies from the 19th and the 20th centuries. :hmm:

 

[NovaSilisko]

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060412c.html Some better pictures of the trip and damage here.

 

[Cras]

I cant believe they damaged it. They should loose it now, just for being careless and stupid like that. Ship it to Chicago, or Houston, or someplace else.

 

[Hielor]

I cant believe they damaged it. They should loose it now, just for being careless and stupid like that. Ship it to Chicago, or Houston, or someplace else.

It's appalling that Houston didn't get a shuttle that flew. Houston did far more for the shuttle program than New York and Los Angeles combined.

Or maybe I'm just biased, as a native Houstonian who worked on the shuttle program for a semester in college...

 

[Cras]

It's appalling that Houston didn't get a shuttle that flew. Houston did far more for the shuttle program than New York and Los Angeles combined.

Or maybe I'm just biased, as a native Houstonian who worked on the shuttle program for a semester in college...

I am totally with you on that point. New York and DC, close cities to each other get a Shuttle, and the center of the country gets nothing. Not right. Not right at all. Why should New York get a Shuttle?

 

[Zachstar]

What is absolutely crazy to me is how the media is treating the damage is "just a bit of damage and easily repaired"

People just don't get it. The more repairs you have to do the more historical value is lost. I don't want to see 90 percent Enterprise I want to see ALL of it!

Why on earth was it cleared to pass with such tight tolerances anyway?

 

[Cras]

Exactly. It is a historical artifact now, and some bozo just trashed a part of it.

 

[RisingFury]

Seeing the damage up close, I can say it's easily repaired. They can fix it up to the point where you can't even see it was ever broken.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Yeah, it's less damage than I thought at first. Seems to be just the very tip of the wing. Still, though... it's the damn space shuttle you just knocked into a pier...