when it s game time. when the day s only half over but my energy is all gone. when i need the energy to start exercising. every day. every day. every day is a 5-hour energy day. 5-hour energy. every day. bill: we now have visual contact of enterprise on back of this boeing 747 over the skies of new york city. this is something we ve picked up on about 50 minutes ago leaves dulles outside of washington d.c. she ll make her way to a new home on the back of intrepid. it will be a site where they believe 1.3 million tourists will have the opportunity to walk-through and take in some history of enterprise. pamela melroy is a former astronaut and the second woman to command a space shuttle.
for several years. some believe several years could turn into too many years. that is not a position you want to be in. martha: in florida it has been a major source of the economy in that area. so many people working on this project over the years. so so many tourists come to watch the shuttle launch as they would take off from florida. and that is a big part of this story too. when you talk about funding in congress. at one point the estimate was a penny per person per year that it cost americans to run nasa and to run the space programs. a very small amount of money. it has been a real source of budget squabbling over the years, how much money we spent over the space program. those who are supporters say it is very minimal compared to the debt and a lot of other things we spent money on. we move toward the next home, permanent home. that will be intrepid. if you have driven along the westside highway here on island of manhattan, it is a quite a sight when you come across the intrepi
the country and all around the world, enterprise will be a very special stop in manhattan come very soon. martha: there is look where it is headed on the hudson river, the intrepid. that is the site where it will land at dulles international airport as it gets ready to take off. it was almost like an olympic process. they were all wanting to have a piece of the historic equipment. to have one of the shuttles in their home museum spaces. those are the cities that won. los angeles, new york, and washington, d.c. as we watch this one take its final ride as we say. bill: she had been scheduled to come here twice but was delayed twice by weather with bad rain in the area. overnight we were not sure because you had a storm system move through here. the wind were really strong. it appears we re cleared out today. we re set for a nice ride, what is it, 35 minutes flying time from washington up to new york city. laura engles watching with us. i want to reach out to laura right now.
we normally see this when they come out of california when the shuttle has to land in the desert out there because weather in florida is bad. you had opportunity last week. you saw one piggyback operation. martha: discovery moved into place where this one was prior to that at the smithsonian annex in washington. usually when you take the shuttle to dc in new york. you don t want it to circle but just land quickly. in this case the circling is part of the whole event. it is a wonderful tribute to all the years and hard work that this whole shuttle team put into this project. they are being retired and now we ll see it on the westside highway back of intrepid. they will have to move things to make room for this inspreadable piece of science history, of nasa history, the enterprise as it moves in. we ll watch it until it takes off from dulles this morning. nasa calls her an institution in american history, testing so many things without it travel into space would have never happened.
intrepid we are being told which is the aircraft carrier and space museum which is on the hudson river in the midtown section of new york city. it has taken a peak at its future home. they have moved three aircraft off of the top of that aircraft carrier to make room for its really inspiring new neighbor, and that will be enterprise as it finds its place on the top of that aircraft carrier, and it will be there for all of the tourists and the new yorkers some see whenever they like. the plane is flying very low. this is the specially equipped 747 which carries the shuttle on its missions. they have a great partnership going, and look at that beautiful shot right now. it looks to be flying, sort of queens would i say in the background. someone can correct me if i m wrong. but blue skies over new york city. it s been a chris being sort of weather that we ve experienced over the course of this week and it s going to be looping around the city in low fashion so that everybody can get a loo