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Revealing the Colors of the Star Trek Enterprise

Posted on Aug 17, 2016

Want to know what colors are on the 3-meter (11-foot) Star Trek starship Enterprise studio model? Read more to find the colorimeter readings for the colors we uncovered during our sanding tests and other conservation work on the model.

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Enterprise Studio Model Back on Display

Posted on Jun 27, 2016

The studio model of the Star Trek starship Enterprise is now on exhibit in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall. After taking it off exhibit in 2014, assembling a special advisory committee, examining it using x-ray radiography, searching out long-lost photos, and planning the work in great detail, months of hard work culminated in several weeks of painting, detail work, rewiring, and final assembly. In the end, the whole project was a tremendous collaboration.

<i>Enterprise</i> Model Components

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USS Enterprise Conservation Begins Phase II

Posted on Jan 28, 2016

Stardate 1601.28: After a year of extensive research, conservation work on the original studio model of the USS Enterprise is now underway in the Museum’s spacedock.

Starship "Enterprise" Model in 1987

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We’re Sending the USS Enterprise Back in Time

Posted on Sep 08, 2015

You can help. Conservators at the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory are working to restore the original, 11-foot studio model of the USS Enterprise, used in all 79 episodes of the television series Star Trek, to its appearance from August of 1967. We are looking for first-hand, primary source photos or film of the ship’s early years. Images of the model during production or on public display anytime between 1964 and 1976 will help conservators determine the model’s exact configuration at different stages of its journey.

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Nerd Camp

Posted on Aug 04, 2015

The door was locked, but a swipe of a security access card rewarded us with a satisfying “click.” Someone pushed the double doors open and we stepped into the laboratory. We paused for the briefest instant as my eyes, and those of my fellow campers, were transfixed on the object on the other side of the room: The Starship Enterprise from the original Star Trek series.

Moving the <em>Star Trek</em> starship <em>Enterprise</em> Studio Model

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Advising on the Star Trek Starship Enterprise

Posted on Dec 30, 2014

Who do you call when you need to know everything there is to know about the Star Trek starship Enterprise?

 
Star Trek Starship "Enterprise" on display in Rocketry and Spaceflight

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X-Ray Analysis of the Starship Enterprise

Posted on Jun 30, 2009

When the National Air and Space Museum opened in 1976, the production model of the Starship Enterprise was prominently and dramatically displayed hanging at the entrance of “Life in the Universe” gallery. Later, when that gallery closed, and the starship was moved to several other locations within the museum.

Star Trek Starship "Enterprise" Model Restoration

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Restoration of the Starship Enterprise

Posted on Jun 04, 2009

The original studio model of the Starship Enterprise used in the television series "Star Trek" came to the Smithsonian Institution thirty-five years ago, donated by Paramount Studios in 1974. 

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