EXCLUSIVE MEMBERSHIP NEWSLETTER INSIDER SUMMER 2012 Space Shuttle Pavilion now open Intrepid’s Space Shuttle Pavilion, featuring Enterprise, officially opened on July 19th with an historic ceremony and ribbon cutting.
Participants in the ceremony included Major General Charles Bolden, Jr., NASA Administrator, George Fertitta, CEO of NYC & Company and, three of the four Enterprise astronauts, Richard Truly, Joe Engle, and Fred Haise; astronaut Gordon Fullerton was unable to travel and was represented by his wife, Marie.
In celebration of the opening, Intrepid presented Space Shuttle Enterprise in her new home. Samsung SpaceFest through Sunday, July 22nd, which included interactive displays and dem- onstrations from NASA, astronaut appearances and cool displays from Samsung Smart TV and Time Warner Cable’s Connect a Million Minds.
SpaceFest also included a free concert – Sound Waves on the Intrepid, presented by Samsung, on Friday night and a special free screening of Star Trek (2009) on Saturday night as part of Intrepid’s free Astronaut Charles J. Camarda with a fan. Fred Haise at the opening ceremony. summer movie series on the flight deck.
Join Project Enterprise and Support the New Home PROJECT of the First NASA Orbiter, Space Shuttle Enterprise Gifts of any amount are greatly appreciated. Donors of $250 or more will have a star represented in the Space Shuttle Pavilion and in Enterprise’s ENTERPRISE future permanent home at the Intrepid Museum. BE A PART OF HISTORY Learn more at www.intrepidmuseum.org MESSAGE from the President
Dear Member,
This is an exciting time for the Intrepid and for all of New York City. For so long we dreamed of bringing a space shuttle to New York, and we are incredibly excited that on July 19th we opened the Space Shuttle Pavilion to the public.
In a city where so many things are born, engineered, developed and celebrated, it is truly fitting that Enterprise finds her home right here in midtown Manhattan. She represents the birth of an era, a revolution in science, research and discovery. She stands for risk, chance, and courage and she is intrepid. Our mission here is to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire our youth, and we are proud that Enterprise, in all that she has done and all she represents, will help us to continue to carry out this mission. We are honored and thrilled to share her with all of you.
In New York style, we marked this wonderful occasion with Samsung SpaceFest, a 5-day celebration highlighting America’s achievements in space exploration and discovery. Our Intrepid team, in partnership with NASA, and our sponsors Samsung and Time Warner Cable, created an exciting and unique festival experience on the pier and within the Museum that was enjoyed by thousands of visitors from all over the world. We were honored to have several American astronauts — true pioneers — joining us for SpaceFest: Ellen S. Baker, Karol J. Bobko, Charles J. Camarda, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Kevin R. Kregel, Michael J. Massimino, Lee M.E. Morin, Garrett E. Reisman and Mario Runco Jr. all took part in activities throughout the weekend.
As the very first shuttle, Enterprise paved the way for the United States historic 30-year space shuttle program. She was rolled out in 1976, and in 1977 conducted approach and landing tests, to demonstrate that she could fly in the atmosphere and land like an airplane but without powered flight. She traveled the world and became a star. In 1985, Enterprise was taken to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and in 2003, Enterprise was used for research in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster. And now, Enterprise has completed her journey to her new home, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Intrepid Museum and on July 19th we unveiled quite a gift to celebrate our journey. We hope you are as inspired by Enterprise, as we at Intrepid are every day!
Thank you for your continued support, and we hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Susan Marenoff- Zausner President
p. 2 CURATOR’S CORNER Rachel Herman, Collections Manager
A Talon T-38 helmet On July 19th the Space Shuttle Pavilion recently added to opened to the public, and Intrepid’s Exhibits the Museum collection. staff has been hard at work for months preparing for this exciting new phase in the Museum’s history. For the Curatorial and Collections team this has meant reaching out to NASA facilities and people related to the shuttle’s development for objects to help us tell the story of Enterprise.
In December, Robert Dilts, a former of shuttle during wind tunnel testing. Not flights. The job of the T-38 and her crew was Rockwell employee, donated his collection only did we get to hear from people involved to ensure the safety of the shuttle, take of documents related to the move of in current NASA projects, but we also had a photographs and also collect data from the Enterprise from the Rockwell facility, chance to look at models in NASA’s collections. flight. This helmet will also be on view in the where she was built, to the NASA Dryden These included models used in testing the Thirty Years of Collecting show. facility for the Approach and Landing aerodynamics of early shuttle designs and While the Intrepid Museum continues to Tests (ALT). Mr. Dilts’ archive includes more recent models used for testing after the collect items related to Intrepid, Growler planning documents, maps, press releases, Columbia accident in 2003. Enterprise was and the Concorde, our team is excited about photographs and a poster celebrating a job also instrumental in determining the cause the new objects and associated histories well done. Items from Mr. Dilts’ archive will of the Columbia disaster when sections of her we get to explore with Enterprise. Stop by be on display as part of the exhibition Thirty left wing were used in testing theories behind the Museum now through December 2nd Years of Collecting: Treasures from Intrepid’s the tragedy. Collections, which is on view in the Hangar 2 to view items from Intrepid’s collections in Our Exhibits team has also located several Gallery until December 2nd. Thirty Years of Collecting: Treasures from artifacts through auctions that will help us Intrepid’s Collections and the companion In March, members of our Exhibits team tell the story of Enterprise. One of these show, Thirty Years of Excellence: An Intrepid traveled to NASA Langley in Virginia to meet items is a Talon T-38 helmet. NASA uses the Museum Celebration. with experts involved in the shuttle program T-38 as a training jet for astronauts and the and learn more about the early development aircraft was the chase plane for all shuttle
Left: Mr. Dilts’ papers, including a map with precision timing of Enterprise’s move from Rockwell to NASA Dryden, shows the extensive planning involved in every detail of the shuttle program. Right: Aircraft curator Eric Boehm (left) with Tom Horvath, Principal Investigator of Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery at NASA Langley, examining a wind tunnel model used during testing after the space shuttle Columbia accident.
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BE A PART OF HISTORY Celebrate 30 Years of the Intrepid Museum! Throughout all of 2012, the Intrepid Museum will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary. We invite you to visit the Museum to join in this celebration. Make sure to check out www.intrepidmuseum.org to learn more about Intrepid’s history, the media gallery and see how many of the Top 30 Intrepid “must sees’” you have seen.
Thirty Years of Excellence: An Intrepid Museum Celebration through December 2, 2012 Thirty Years of Excellence showcases photographs, video footage, artifacts and archival materials that trace the story of the Intrepid Museum. Over its thirty-year history, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has advanced the ambitious legacy of Support Enterprise at its founders. The space shuttle Enterprise, the Museum’s newest addition, highlights The Intrepid Museum: the Museum’s continued commitment to providing exciting educational experiences. Through these endeavors, the Museum has touched the lives of millions of people Sponsor around the world. Thirty Years of Collecting: Treasures from Intrepid’s Collections a Star through December 2, 2012 The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum was founded in 1982 to preserve the history of a battle-worn aircraft carrier. It also serves as a vessel to tell the stories of the more Be a part of Enterprise’s than 50,000 men who served aboard the ship during her three decades of service. The history and support the first exhibit highlights stories behind artifacts not always on view. There are items from NASA orbiter. Your gift will Growler, the Concorde and, the most recent addition, space shuttle Enterprise. contribute to: Member Event Recap • Programming that celebrates On July 18th, Museum members were invited to a special preview to see the Space Shuttle Pavilion and shuttle Enterprise up close prior to the public opening on July 19th. Enterprise’s illustrious history Members were greeted by Intrepid Museum President, Susan Marenoff-Zausner and of pioneering innovation joined by Astronauts, Mario Runco, Jr. and Ellen S. Baker M.D., M.P.H. Both astronauts are veterans of three space flights and have more than 1,200 hours in space combined. • Creating a thriving center for science, technology, New Tour Added to the Roster engineering and math education Exploring Space is a fascinating multimedia journey through the past, present, programs designed to inspire and future of space exploration, including a close-up look at the space shuttle future scientists, engineers Enterprise. You will learn how science, science fiction, international conflict, and researchers popular culture, and politics have shaped our drive to “go where no man has gone before.” Your tour guide will show you other space program gems such as a space- • Building a permanent home for flown Russian Soyuz capsule. her at the Intrepid Museum OPERATION SLUMBER October 6 & 26, November 2 and December 1 learn more: Sleep aboard Intrepid and experience what it was like to serve on this aircraft carrier. Available for the special www.intrepidmuseum.org member price of $99 per person. Contact Group Sales at [email protected] or call 646-381-5010 to reserve your space. p. 4 Visit intrepidmuseum.org today.
DISCOVERY DECK Enterprise’s Journey to Intrepid
Enterprise made her final flight around underneath this historic artifact, while an New York City atop a Boeing 747 on route to elevated viewing platform allows guests John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport to gain even greater perspective. Striking on April 27, 2012, from Dulles Airport, images, descriptive texts, dramatic lighting, Washington, DC, after being on exhibit at the and immersive video experiences reveal the Smithsonian Institute since 1985. space shuttle orbiter as both experimental space plane and space ship, and a vehicle The final step ofEnterprise ’s journey to the that enables a greater understanding of Intrepid Museum began on Friday, June science and technology. 1st when Enterprise was rolled from her location under a protective de-icing tent to a The Space Shuttle Pavilion has been near-water location at JFK. On Sunday, June engineered to express the shuttle program’s 3rd, the barge carrying Enterprise departed stories of human triumph and technological JFK, towed by a Weeks Marine tugboat, and feats. Enterprise was NASA’s very first space traveled a scenic route along the shore of shuttle and the inspiration and prototype Queens and Brooklyn, passing the Gil Hodges for the shuttles that followed. Enterprise is Memorial Bridge, Coney Island, and traveling commonly referred to as OV-101, for Orbiter under the Verrazano Bridge before docking Vehicle-101. at Weeks Marine in Port Elizabeth, NJ, for two Enterprise passes over Intrepid, heading for JFK. Space Shuttle Enterprise would never have nights to undergo final preparations. Following the arrival, Intrepid operations soared without the people who made this Cheering crowds lined the river in New teams immediately began work on the great aerospace creation a reality. The Jersey and the west side of Manhattan on climate-controlled pavilion that would house Pavilion emphasizes the story of the Wednesday, June 6th as Enterprise made and protect Enterprise. On Wednesday, Enterprise as the 1976 prototype space a grand entrance as she traveled up the June 20th, the 180’ x 90’ pavilion was shuttle orbiter and illuminates her relationship Hudson River, past the Statue of Liberty inflated, standing 60’ high, with an additional to NASA’s historic role in experimental aircraft and World Trade Center site, and finally 50’ x 60’ vestibule that stands 20’ high throughout the twentieth century, along arrived at the Intrepid to begin the process to accommodate an indoor queuing area with NASA and commercial plans for future of craning the shuttle onto the ship. Nearly for visitors. space missions. Intrepid Museum is proud five hours later, NASA’s original prototype Within the Intrepid Museum’s Space Shuttle to be one of the few places in the world to orbiter, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, was Pavilion, Enterprise sits just 10 feet off the provide the opportunity for visitors to get an successfully placed onto Intrepid’s flight ground, allowing visitors to walk directly up close view of a space shuttle. deck facing the Hudson River.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Dan Desmet Enterprise rides the barge up the Hudson River on June 6th. Enterprise being craned onto the Flight Deck.
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By Eric Boehm Curator, Aviation and Aircraft Restoration
By the time you read this the Space Shuttle maintenance experience. We invited them to us from the Civil Air Patrol’s (CAP) Phoenix Pavilion will be open and some of you may up from the Kennedy Space Center to teach Squadron, based here in New York City. The have already come to see Enterprise. At the our staff all we need to know about our new CAP is the official auxiliary unit to the US Air time this is being written, crews are hard at artifact. The Aircraft Maintenance crew got in- Force. Usani will be heading off to Israel in late work installing graphics, lighting, and the depth instruction on the regular inspections August to serve a two year stint in the Israeli audio visual presentation equipment. Sitting and care required. The tour guides and floor Defense Forces before he begins his yeshiva right in the middle, and seemingly minding staff received insight as to what it was like studies. These young men have proven to her own business, is the star of the show, the to work on these incredible machines. Even be more than the average airplane washers. space shuttle Enterprise. To say these are the office staff, security officers, and the They have assisted with some maintenance exciting days would be the understatement building maintenance crews got in on special on the airplanes and even helped clean up of the decade. Every day since Enterprise presentations. Every single member of the the Enterprise for display. This may very well arrived, I see her in the Pavilion structure and Intrepid Museum team knows how special be their summer to remember, as how many I’m just amazed. Amazed at the technology the Enterprise really is, and we are all so very teenagers can brag about that? she represents; amazed at the audacity proud to have her in New York City. The Demon project is moving along at a and brilliance of her designers, and amazed Now back to the airplane side of our business. steady pace. The airframe is nearly ready for by the courage and skills of the crews that We recently hired two young men as our that new coat of paint. The stabilizer trailing flew her and her sister orbiters that went summer wash crew. Ben Harker is no stranger edges are the big project that remains. into space. That’s enough of the sentimental to Intrepid. He recently completed a five month Some pretty severe corrosion has made the gibberish, just come on out and visit and internship with our Education Department metal rather weak. We plan on replacing that prepare to be amazed! and has just graduated high school. Ben also structure with new metal very soon. The We recently hosted two NASA/United Space did an internship with us during the 2010- paint scheme on the Demon will represent Alliance Orbiter technicians, Tim Keyser 2011 school year. He’ll be attending to his the type’s brief service aboard Intrepid with and Jim Jeffers. These two men have more university studies in Vermont this fall. Usani the markings of Fighter Squadron 41, the than 50 years of combined space shuttle Browne-Hasen, also a recent graduate, comes Black Aces, in 1958.
Above: The Demon will have a new paint job but it will look just as it did 54 years ago.
Right: A shot from 1958, showing the McDonnell F3H-2 Demon getting ready for a launch from Intrepid’s starboard side catapult. p. 6 “Every single member of the Intrepid Museum team knows how special the Enterprise really is, and we are all so very proud to have her in New York City.”
JFK International Airport, May 13th. The de-mating operation removed Enterprise from the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, just one of many steps that brought Enterprise to the Intrepid.
Ben Harker and Usani Browne-Hasen have joined the Intrepid Aircraft Maintenance team for the summer. Their duties include keeping the airplanes clean and even some aircraft maintenance. They never seem to stop smiling.
Do you have a question or comment about the airplanes or the space shuttle Enterprise? Please call or write: Eric Boehm, Curator of Aviation and Aircraft Restoration email: [email protected] phone: (646) 381-5237
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