“Captain at last!”
There have been many US ships named Enterprise, most notably the World War 2 carrier, for which Star Trek’s ship was named:
USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. A Yorktown-class carrier, she was launched in 1936 and was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship. These actions included the Attack on Pearl Ha...
The orbiter Enterprise was built for testing, and never went into space, now at the Intrepid Museum in NYC:
Coordinates: 40°45′53″N 74°00′03″W / 40.764832°N 74.000763°W / 40.764832; -74.000763
Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.
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And the part where Alan Bean explains the stick reminds me how one shuttle astronaut (John Young, maybe?) described flying the shuttle in its final, glider approach as a “flying brick.” Yikes.
Flaired jeans already came back once before, in the '90s…I guess it’s running on a 20-25 year cycle.
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Yeah you could jump out of it, fall at terminal velocity, and the shuttle would still be on the ground before you.
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pesco
May 4, 2019, 7:18am
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