An Enterprise Has Fallen ...
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There will be more to carry on the legacy.
The US Navy confirmed in 2012 at the inactivation ceremony for CVN-65 that the third Gerald R Ford-class carrier, CVN-80, would be the next USS Enterprise. She is currently under construction and is scheduled to be operational by 2028.
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It's probably closer to the Enterprise-B – it's the third US Navy aircraft carrier to bear the name after CV-6 (1938-1947) and CVN-65 (1961-2017). And there were Enterprises before CV-6 of course, just as there were Enterprises before NCC-1701...Our own version of the NCC-1701A.
The effort is appreciated, as is the knowledge.
Well, someone needs to build a new Enterprise, it would be about time. maybe this one can explore in some way instead of ‘fight’?
Can’t Elon Musk or Richard Branson build one, maybe even that Jeff Bezos guy. It’s a shame that NASA can’t build it.
Can’t Elon Musk or Richard Branson build one, maybe even that Jeff Bezos guy. It’s a shame that NASA can’t build it.
Interesting choice of namesake. Gerald Ford isn't considered an exceptional President, though I think that he made a necessary sacrifice in pardoning Nixon. It ruined his chances of election in his own right, but it ended an episode that would have disgraced the US completely.
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I believe the names and registry numbers are determined quite far ahead of time, it just so happened that in this case it rolled over into being the first ship of a new class. If it had been one ship earlier it would have been the George H W Bush-class, and one ship later it would have been the John F Kennedy-class
Of course the CVN-65 was already Enterprise-class (and the only ship of that class ever constructed) so that one's gone...
Not so much fallen as retired with honours.
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Interestingly it's always the CVN-65 depicted on the "previous ships named Enterprise" displays – for both the NX-01, 1701 refit, and 1701-D.
Though the Royal Navy does currently have an HMS Enterprise (H88), which is a hydrographic/oceanographic survey vessel – or, in Star Trek terms, a combined scout/science ship.
Interestingly it's always the CVN-65 depicted on the "previous ships named Enterprise" displays – for both the NX-01, 1701 refit, and 1701-D.
Though the Royal Navy does currently have an HMS Enterprise (H88), which is a hydrographic/oceanographic survey vessel – or, in Star Trek terms, a combined scout/science ship.
Beautiful!
The one in STTMP is CV-6.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise
It crashed in 2014. Pilot died.
Branson and Bezos don’t get into space proper though, only spacex, roscosmos and China Space Inc can put people into space (orbit) at the moment. Boeing may make it later this year.
