USS Intrepid | #NASA #SpaceShuttle #OV-101 #Entreprise #Mockup

@ Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) is 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. As a result, it was not capable of spaceflight.

• Type : Spaceplane

• Class : Space Shuttle orbiter

• Eponym : USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

• Other name : Constitution (1975–1977)

• Serial no. OV-101

• Owner : NASA

• Manufacturer : Rockwell International

History

• First flight : August 12, 1977

• Last flight : October 26, 1977

• Flights : 5

• Flight time : 20 m, 58 s above Earth

• Fate : Prototype

• Location : Intrepid Museum New York City, New York

 

@ USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

 

• Name : Intrepid

• Ordered : 3 July 1940

• Builder : Newport News Shipbuilding

• Laid down : 1 December 1941

• Launched : 26 April 1943

• Commissioned : 16 August 1943

• Decommissioned : 15 March 1974

• Reclassified : CVA-11, 1 October 1952 later CVS-11, 31 Mar 1962

• Stricken : 23 February 1982

• Motto : In Mare In Caelo "On the sea, in the sky"

• Status : Museum ship at the Intrepid Museum in New York City

 

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