"Enterprise, come in, Enterprise!"

There hasn't been much good news for space junkies these days.  The Shuttle program has ended and the next phase of space exploration is still largely a planetoid sized question mark.  So that makes the arrival of the Space Shuttles at their new homes something to look forward to.  If you live in Los Angeles or Washington DC, you'll have the priveledge of visiting space's most frequent flyers.  If you live in New York City, you won't be getting a spaceworthy craft, but you will be getting the original.  The Enterprise may never have flown in space and it may have been collecting rust in a Smithsonian museum, but I'll still be among the many on the shore of the Hudson river to (hopefully) watch it barge it's over to the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, where it will live until a permanant viewing hall can be constructed for it.   There's no word yet on when exactly that will happen or if it will be a covered barge (I'm hoping not) but it looks like the Shuttle is scheduled to land at JFK on April 23rd.