Hurricane Sandy Aftermath in NY

The Space shuttle Enterprise, NASA's original prototype orbiter, sits exposed on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, a converted aircraft carrier. Enterprise had been protected from the elements inside a pressurized pavilion. Based on photos posted online, the inflatable structure appears to have first deflated and then torn by the winds of the now post-tropical storm cyclone. The 180-foot-long (55 meters) by 60-foot-high (18 meters) pavilion's fabric exterior now lies draped over Enterprise, though much of the shuttle's nose section and part of its payload bay is uncovered. The orbiter's vertical stabilizer, or tail, is protruding out the top, where it looks like part of the spacecraft may have been torn away.