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Space Shuttle arrives at on new home
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- Date Apr 27, 2012
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The Big Apple.
Rangel standing by she is in JF at JFK as he waits for this floor.
He you know it has been an extraordinary history for this international.
Space station and the shuttle that that created it by carrying this cargo back and forth on these on these.
Thirty vehicles and -- -- when it was the prototype.
It certainly has -- -- as we've been mentioning there is a lot of excitement here along with a lot of wind and hopefully it will subside.
I in the next few hours encountered comes -- you guys have been describing.
How it's going to be barged over to the intrepid.
Let's get over to the intrepid which is against such a beautiful sight along Manhattan's west side highway.
I it will still take -- water prayed to get that thing up -- -- the top.
Flight deck there have been three aircraft that -- -- including a Russian fighter jet.
They have been moved decide where -- it -- the intrepid.
Gets that.
Rise up on the flight deck they are going to then billed a flat pavilion around it -- -- -- Here we go into.
And sit and -- together.
Moments away.
Yeah yeah.
-- Graceful thing to watch is that -- As this is happening in Kazakhstan.
-- half a world away.
-- US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have landed safely back on earth.
After a six month expedition to the International Space Station soon as we watch the retirement stage unfold literally before our eyes.
The space program.
And this.
Emotional moment to.
For all of the people who are involved in this program last -- we -- -- -- -- -- that was the last man in the Apollo missions to walk.
On the -- and he was very unhappy.
What we talked about the end of this program because he felt that it marks the end of this sort of scientific.
Appetite that existed as a government program as part of NASA.
And then the future of the space program he felt that was very much in jeopardy and very much in question at this point.
I and it is truly symbolic and -- as we watch this graceful ship.
I would enterprise.
-- back.
Think of -- dramatic moments of the lift off some of those of these missions we've -- covering them you know over the years and it is stunning sight to see you then take off from Florida as we have watched him now and you know quite content.
Meaningfully makes its way into the class.