manhattan s west side as we ve been telling you over the last few hours. the historic aircraft carrier is a museum in the hudson river. we had a chance to speak to the curator of aviation there. we started by talking about the enormous task of bringing this shuttle you see your screen to the intrepid. only a few blocks away from times square, right in the middle of manhattan, we re on the hutson river, and you have a space shuttle that is coming here. how big of a deal is that? life is good. what more could you ask for in new york city is to add a space shuttle. jenna: when you first found out the enterprise was going to come here, what did you think? i was really jazzed the enterprise especially being prototype space shuttle and background in aviation and history, enterprise, that is the mum. jenna: did you have to do any kind of rearranging, massive furniture arranging to get the shuttle on deck? are you kidding me? there were planes in this whole area.
enterprise behind me, excuse me. it is so amazing to see this sight. i will get out of the way so our cameraman can push in to show you just how beautiful enterprise sits atop that jumbo jet. it just landed here moments ago to the delight of the hundreds that are here on hand. new york senator chuck schumer taking the podium just a few moments ago, telling people here that new york has the right stuff as we won the right to have enterprise here in this city. he said of course we will always complete our mission. enterprise shows us what america, what american success to get a goal we succeed and live long and prosper in your final resting place. the words he said as this aircraft is being towed around. of course we know that leonard nimoy is here because he appeared with us on fox news channel a short while ago. the man who played spock on
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the debut of the commercial transport rockets and the orion up, maybe six-tenths of 1% of the whole federal budget, that would do the job. jon: we re looking at the shuttle enterprise as it sits at jfk. for those who might have missed the coverage earlier, this was the test vehicle, this was the vehicle they would take up onboard probably that same 747 that it s sitting on now and release it at about 40,000 feet and just test its flying characteristics. really it doesn t fly all that well, does it? it flies like a brick, jon, and it s meant to do that. it s got very stubby rings, it falls out of the sky rapidly. it cannot glide with the same efficiency as a jet liner, but it can handle landing at kennedy space center, so it proved that you could actually guide this unpowerred, 100-ton machine to a safe and precise landing. jon: just so our viewers get
jenna: enterprise is home for now. for a couple weeks it will have its temporary home at jfk airport and then its journey continues. it will be loaded onto a barge and taken to the hudson river where it will be lifted from that barge onto the aircraft carrier the intrepid. that will happen in a couple weeks time. jon: think of the symbolism. the hudson river named after henry hudson who did so much exploring of this continent really before the nation was here. before, well, before we had an america, henry hudson was looking around, poking around in his ship, the half moon. now enterprise, a craft, that didn t, as jenna said, didn t make it into space but provided so much information about shuttles that followed on. enterprise will be sitting on board the carrier there in the intrepid in the hudson river. jenna: will be amazing to see. i want to correct something. we have a lot of different space shuttles going a few