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Intrepid Space Shuttle Pavilion Opening

NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum President Susan Marenoff-Zausner cut a ribbon at the museum marking the opening of the new Space Shuttle Pavilion which exhibits the space shuttle Enterprise while NASA Astronaut and Enterprise Commander Fred Haise, left, NASA Astronaut and Enterprise Commander Joe Engle, background, and Marie Fullerton, wife of NASA Astronaut and Enterprise Pilot Gordon Fullerton, right, look on, Thursday, July 19, 2012 in New York City.

Astronaut Engle in Space Shuttle Pavilion

NASA/Bill Ingalls

Former NASA Astronaut and Enterprise Commander Joe Engle looks at an exhibit in the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's Space Shuttle Pavilion where the space shuttle Enterprise is on Thursday, July 19, 2012 in New York.

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