Ms. Marenoff-Zausner said the decision to give up the planes was "bittersweet" because it would help Intrepid accommodate Enterprise, which the museum's directors hope will be a big draw.
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: 'Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer' (daily) Although the shuttle pavilion is undergoing renovation because of damage from Hurricane Sandy, this exhibition on the history and the development of the shuttle is on view in the main museum through the spring.
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: 'Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer' (opening Thursday) Although the shuttle pavilion is not open due to damage from Hurricane Sandy, this exhibition on the history and the development of the shuttle will open on Thursday and remain on view through the spring.
The Smithsonian, in turn, agreed to send the prototype it had been displaying, known as Enterprise, to the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.
A petition posted on the White House's Web site by an Ohio businessman asks the president to revisit the decision made in April by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to give the shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.
Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, sent a letter to Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, asking him to reconsider his decision to give Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.
But five months after the Intrepid was awarded the shuttle Enterprise, museum officials have turned their attention from the end of the newly revamped pier to a parking lot on 12th Avenue, across the cacophonous West Side Highway.
The stuff of "Star Trek" — uniforms, communicators and other props, including pointy rubber ears — has boldly gone to a place where the intrepid crew never took the Enterprise: the Bronx.
Intrepid officials hope to recoup some of that money by selling tickets to the exhibition to see Enterprise up close.
