Famed Star Trek ship finds a new home in Houston
A piece of Star Trek history is
coming to Space
Center Houston, courtesy of some Trek fans that picked up quite the sci-fi
prop at an auction last year.
Trek fans may remember the 1967
episode "The Galileo Seven", where the science officers aboard the Enterprise
use a shuttlecraft called the Galileo to explore a star system. That prop was
bought at an auction last year by collector Adam
Schneider for $61,000. The prop's condition was less than stellar, and the trailer-sized vehicle was coated in rust. A Trek fan had
bought in the '80s for just around $2,000.
Schneider is a part of a group of
Trekkers that wanted to buy the Galileo for an extensive, fan-funded restoration
project. Now that it has been restored to its '60s luster, it has been
donated to Space Center Houston, where it will sit in the visitor center next to
other very real spacecraft from NASA history.
Schneider says it is leaving the warehouse where it is being restored this month and will arrive in Houston in late July.
Space Center Houston spokesman Jack
Moore says that the plan is to have Galileo installed at the complex by the
end of the year. They are currently ironing out plans for the transportation of
Galileo to SCH and its display once it arrives.
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