During the summer of 2004, I was lucky enough to serve an intership at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, also known as the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, VA. It's a great museum, and I highly reccommend visiting it some day! While there, I documented all sorts of things as a museum photographer. My main project was that of photographically documenting the restoration work of the Enterprise Space Shuttle. Nothing like being up close while watching the guys from NASA work on such a machine!
It's the old Enterprise...all original. They had to gut the cockpit so that NASA could come remove some of the windows to perform stress tests on them. It was pretty cool to get to watch cause I sat in the cockpit taking pictures while they worked. There are actually different layers of windows too and some weigh up to 80 lbs.
