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Space shuttle Enterprise makes NYC flyby
April 27, 2012
Last Updated 11:38 a.m. ET[/i]
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - The space shuttle Enterprise, ferried by a modified jumbo jet, made a final, majestic trip to its future home in New York City Friday.
The shuttle, made a low-altitude flyover over the Hudson River, past such city landmarks as the Statue of Liberty and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan's West Side, to the delight of countless New Yorkers peering with cameras from windows and rooftops.
The spacecraft made made two passes along the Hudson River before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Enterprise took off
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