Space Shuttle Pavilion, Space museum at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex, Manhattan, US.
Space Shuttle Pavilion is a museum within the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum complex in Manhattan that displays the orbiter prototype Enterprise. The building contains a space-flown Soyuz TMA-6 capsule and 17 exhibition zones filled with artifacts from spaceflight history.
Enterprise was originally built as a test vehicle for flight development in the 1970s and became the first orbiter of its design. The vehicle arrived at the museum vessel in 2012, transforming into a centerpiece of this new exhibition space.
The pavilion shares conversations between mission control and Enterprise pilots during flight tests through an immersive audio installation at the entrance. Visitors can hear the original radio exchanges between ground crews and the cockpit, creating a direct connection to those early test moments.
The pavilion building accommodates up to 400 people for receptions and 150 people in theater seating, with downloadable floor plans available for planning. Visitors can review the layout beforehand to organize their route through the exhibition spaces.
Enterprise was used for unpowered glide tests in the 1970s and remains the only NASA shuttle that traveled internationally to the 1983 Paris Air Show. These journeys reveal how the vehicle served as a spaceflight symbol far beyond American borders.
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