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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:50 pm    Post subject: Enterprise On The Move At Smithsonian-part 1 Reply with quote

Enterprise On The Move At Smithsonian

The U.S.S. Enterprise studio model from Star Trek: The Original Series, which has been on public display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum since 1976, was removed on September 11 from the lower level of the museum's store -- where it's been ensconced ince 2000 -- in order to prepare it for its new display location in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, set to open in July 2016, in time for Trek's 50th anniversary.'.....'Milestones of Flight will be the beneficiary of a full renovation and expansion, courtesy of a $30 million donation from the Boeing Company, and will be renamed the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall. Further, according to the National Air and Space Museum, the overhaul will take into account its revised definition of the word "milestone." Where once "milestone" meant "the first" in space travel or flight, it will now embrace "an artifact having significant or widespread cultural, historic, scientific or technological impact."






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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the Enterprise should remain at the Smithsonian. I don't see how Boeing has any right to it.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They don't. The Big E of space is not coming to Seattle. Local papers say that it is staying in DC. The museum there is just being re-named.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, Butch. Glad to hear that!

I wish the Smithsonian also had the originals: C-57-D, Jupiter 2, Robby robot, LIS B9 robot, and Chariot ... along with the ST Enterprise.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The largest [84 inch approx] (working pedestal, engine lights, ramps) was bought at a Profiles In History Auction by Paul Allen who, instead of showing it in the EMP?Sc-Fi Museum, has it in his house.

The smallest [22 inch approx] was bought at the M-G-M auction by Wes Shank.

The middle [44 inch approx] was bought by Bill Malone.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:56 pm    Post subject: How the Smithsonian is Restoring the Original 1701 Reply with quote

How the Smithsonian is Restoring the Original 1701 Enterprise Model
Sarah Zhang, Gizmodo

The USS Enterprise is, in popular imagination, a futuristic spaceship. The actual USS Enterprise model used on the Star Trek show is, in reality, a 50-year-old creaker that has endured at least one misguided new paint job. The Smithsonian is hard at work restoring the model, though, and they've even got the National Zoo's vet techs involved.

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In an interview with TrekCore, the Smithsonian's conservator Margaret Weitekamp dropped some fascinating hints about how the restoration is going. The model was donated to the Smithsonian five years after the show was canceled, and it had been on display at the Air and Space Museum. Earlier this year, they started to restore the sagging, stress-fractured model in earnest, boldly going where no conservator has gone before.

One of the first things the conservators did was bring in X-ray vet techs from the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Weitekamp explains TrekCore:

The Enterprise has been X-rayed before, but that was done by sending it out for analysis. This is an opportunity — since the Zoological Park team had a portable radiography unit — to bring the equipment in house and save us the trouble of having to move the model an additional time.

It was really interesting. You can get a good sense of the interior; all of the little penny nails and things like that. I'm excited to get some of that imagery back. It comes in very large files that are specific to the scanning system that they have; they are in the process of converting them to a more standardized image file that we can use when working with the model.



Ultraviolet photo of the spaceship model. Credit: Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum.

In the 90s, an earlier attempt to restore the model led to new detailing and paint, which is a big no-no in modern conservation. So now, the museum also has to figure out how to undo its own mistakes. More from Weitekamp at TrekCore:

The museum has been doing its own work and evaluation which has included using UV light to analyze the paint, and to figure out where we have clearly repainted areas and where we have areas that seem to be more uniform in their paint. The top of the saucer section, for example, leads us to believe that it is original paint — it all fluoresces in the same way.

There's plenty more to nerd out over at TrekCore. As for the model itself, expect to see it on display again in its former glory in 2016, just in time for the original series' 50th anniversary. [TrekCore]


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http://gizmodo.com/how-the-smithsonian-is-restoring-the-original-uss-enter-1676892739


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:29 pm    Post subject: Original Enterprise Model Restoration Update Reply with quote

Smithsonian Brings Original Enterprise Model Back for One Day Only During Major Restoration Effort
by Jared Whitley, TrekMovie




The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is overseeing the 4th and latest restoration of the original Enterprise model used to film The Original Series. For one day only they let the public in on the process, and TrekMovie's Jared Whitley has the scoop and photos below. Imgur

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum held an open house to showcase some of its restoration facilities, and staff spoke with visitors about how they tend to artifacts in their possession at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a converted hangar bay in Herndon, Virginia, about 25 miles from Washington, DC. Thousands of visitors were able to go through rooms that are off-limits the rest of the year. ....

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Conservation experts are touching-up the prop, which is over 50 years old at this point. The model had been on display in the 1st floor Smithsonian Museum Store continuously since 2000, so to see it again in the open was as sweet as a glass of tranya. The restoration efforts are preparing the E for her new, more prominent home in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall along side such iconic flying machines as the Spirit of St. Louis, the single-engine plane flown by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 on the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, and the Apollo 11 command module, which landed Neil and Buzz safely on the lunar surface (sic) in 1969.



Restoration and Preservation since the 1960s
Since it's television debut in 1966, the 11-foot model has been "treated" three times — in 1974, 1984, and 1992. The current restoration comes more than 20 years after the last major effort in 1992 overseen by Science Fiction Modelmaking Associates, who also brought you many of our beloved TNG props and models. The 1992 job caused some controversy in the fan community over the paint that was applied. Mike and Denise Okuda, who have been responsible for so much of the look and feel of Star Trek over the years, are consulting on the new restoration project.

"That [1992] restoration was actually quite accurate, but the restorer applied the 'weathering' overlay too heavily," Mike told TrekMovie. "That's actually a very easy mistake to make. It's really very hard to judge the "proper" amount of weathering, especially for an object that is normally seen in second, third, fourth and worse generation photo images, which is what was done for the original optical effects. Nevertheless, I agree that the weathering was too heavily applied."

Mike says that the Museum may decide to take a more conservative approach this time around, saying "I don't think the museum has yet decided on the exact approach they're going to take. They're still studying it, trying to figure out a balance between restoration and conservation. They will want guests to see the starship in all its glory, but at the same time, they want to minimize invasive procedures in the interest of preserving the artifact (including its paint) for future study."

The Smithsonian treats their objects as proper museum pieces, and as such will preserve some of the original surface during restoration projects. According to Okuda, the top of the saucer (except the bridge superstructure) has the original paint applied to the model in the 1960s. That means the exact paint captured by the cameras that brought you the Original Series. How cool is that?........



The original model and the guys who built it in December, 1964 (left to right): Richard C. Datin, Jr., Mel Keys, and Vernon Sion (not pictured, Volmer Jensen)

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http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/26/smithsonian-brings-original-enterprise-model-back-for-one-day-only-during-major-restoration-effort/#more-40049


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The post above is another example of how dedicated Bulldogtrekker was to keeping us informed about all things connected with the franchise he loved.

His demise is our regrettable loss. Sad

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