Now everyone can experience the final frontier.
The new Space Shuttle Pavilion, featuring NASA’s Enterprise, opened yesterday at the Intrepid Museum, where at least 4,000 visitors bought $30 tickets to get up close and personal with the first winged spaceplane.
“I am personally very excited because, I was one of the ones who wrote a letter to help name the Enterprise,” said Deborah Ross, 63, of the Upper West Side. “This is real history, and it was important for me to be here on its first day of its new life.”
Ross was among the 100,000 “Star Trek” TV fans who wrote to the feds in the 1970s begging that the orbiter be named after Capt. Kirk’s starship.
Some fans turned up decked out in Trek costumes.
“Oh, so worth it, to actually just see the Enterprise up close and pay homage to the shuttle,” said Larry Smith of Bergenfield, NJ. “We had to do it.’’