The Intrepid in New York
Travel February 14th, 2010Twenty-eight years ago, a museum opened in New York City that’s unlike most others. It’s the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, which now receives ten million visitors a year to a place that is focused around the Interpid, an aircraft carrier (CVS-11) that’s now a national historic landmark, and one of the city’s great attractions. She was commissioned in 1943, and utilized in World War II. In later years, she was the main vessels used to recover NASA capsules. The ship served three tours of duty off the shores of Vietnam and was used in the North Atlantic to surveil for submarines in the Cold War. Now the ship is a museum, a center for education, and a testament to all those in the nation’s military service.
Aboard the Intrepid, you’ll find a number of exhibits that you can see and touch. There’s recreations of history with the exhibit, Kamikaze: Day of Darkness, Day of Light. There’s also an A-6 Cockpit Simulator. You can visit a Virtual Flight Zone, and you can walk inside the Concorde, the world’s fastest commerical plane. Considered a national icon, the Intrepid receives more than seven hundred and fifty thousand visitors a year.
From February 13th to February 21st, it’s Kid’s Week aboard the Intrepid, so if you’re traveling to New York with kids, it’s the perfect time to view the ship and all of its exhibits. There will be giveaways and raffles, as well as science demonstrations, and the opportunity win a free week at Camp Intrepid 2010 (normally a 450 dollar value), where kids engage in outdoor activities (tug of war, relay races, and so on), as well as exploring the new Pier and Flight Deck, and even dine on the aircraft elevator, which overlooks the Hudson.
Once you’ve let the kids explore, then you might take time for youself and a loved one to tour the New York meant for adults, such as its casinos, which you may find in many hotels.
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