THE US space shuttle Enterprise bowed out yesterday on America's biggest stage - a flyover of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan's skyscrapers.

It was headed for a museum in New York at the end of an era in American space travel.

Crowds along the Hudson cheered as the shuttle, piggybacking on a modified Boeing 747, passed three times over New York harbour.

"I think it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm almost speechless," said Leuinda Field, 37, a teacher who brought her three-year-old son to see the historic moment.

 

 

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I liked what one of the commentators on one of the news channels said

 

Paraphrasing here

 

"I"ve had people ask me is this safe, could the Shuttle fall off? I explain to them it uses the same mounting system as it does when launched into space, if it isn't falling off that, it isn't falling off a 747"