and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why don t we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. reporter: what do i hear now? i think it s the staples singers singing i ll take you there. i think that s what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the enterprise never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited guests who are here at jfk. we ll have speakers from nasa, speakers from the air and space museum, and also leonard nimoy will be here speaking as well. we spoke to him a few minutes ago. he talked about how exciting it was for him. he was around in 1976 when enterprise made its debut. the whole crew of enterprise came out for that moment. as you know, the aircraft is named after the spaceship enterprise after tv fans say you should name it enterprise. a lot of excitement here as we r