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Yesterday’s Enterprise

2018/01/04 by terranovabay

My first visit to the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Museum in the last century provided what for me was an exciting opportunity to see the model of the Enterprise used in filming Star Trek: The Original Series that ran on television in the 1960s. At the time I was rather disappointed over how the model was displayed, sort of as an afterthought, out of reach overhead in a hallway leading to a larger exhibit space. And the light was not […]

Categories: Darkroom Photography • Tags: Air & Space Museum, Enterprise, Smithsonian Museum, Star Trek, The Original Series

Fascinating

2015/02/27 by terranovabay

Remembering Leonard Nimoy and his immortal portrayal of Spock from Star Trek, a role that even he knew had come to define his life hence the book he wrote in 1975 called I am not SPOCK. Despite the title, by the end of the book he had found personal acceptance of the character as being forevermore part of his life. And then there is Spock’s iconic science station on the Bridge of the Enterprise, seen here in a full-size approximate […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Data, Enterprise, I am not SPOCK, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Leonard Nimoy, Sci-Fi Summer, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Unification II, Vulcan

To Boldly Go

2014/09/09 by terranovabay

A recent post by the National Air and Space Museum about this week marking the debut of “Star Trek” (The Original Series) in 1966 reminded me of my visits to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC where I was able to photograph the actual model of the U.S.S. Enterprise that was used in the original TV series. The photos are from my second visit to see the model a couple of years ago, which is quite large at eleven feet […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: 1966, Boeing Milestones of Flight, Enterprise, NASM, National Air and Space Museum, NBC, NCC-1701, Original Series, Smithsonian Institution, Star Trek, starship, TV, U.S.S. Enterprise, Washington DC

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Yesterday’s Enterprise

Fascinating

To Boldly Go