Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

The flamboyant Australian mining magnate behind the building of the Titanic II said on Friday a New York gala to unveil plans for the vessel would be delayed out of respect for the victims of super storm Sandy.

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer said Wednesday he will unveil the design and plans for his ambitious Titanic II project in New York with the help of John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline.

Barbara Walters on Tuesday will host a celebration marking the one year anniversary of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal. Barbara Walters on Tuesday will host a celebration marking the one year anniversary of ?Don't Ask, Don't Tell? repeal. Celebrating Our Heroes: A Tribute to America's Service Members & Veterans will take place aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. The event, sponsored by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), OutServe and the Interbank Roundtable Committee (IRC), will honor Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his leadership role in repeal of the military policy which for 18 years banned gay and bisexual troops from serving openly. ?The addition of Barbara Walters as our emcee for the evening makes an already exciting lineup even more spectacular. It's only fitting that America's most influential and accomplished journalist ? who has made history herself a time or two ? would join us for this historic a

Barbara Walters will serve as emcee for an event marking the one year anniversary of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal. Barbara Walters will serve as emcee for an event marking the one year anniversary of ?Don't Ask, Don't Tell? repeal and honoring Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The September 18 event, titled Celebrating Our Heroes, will take place aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City and is hosted by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), OutServe and the Interbank Roundtable Committee (IRC). Mullen, who played a key leadership role in repeal of the military policy which for 18 years banned gay troops from serving openly, will be honored at the event. ?The addition of Barbara Walters as our emcee for the evening makes an already exciting lineup even more spectacular. It's only fitting that America's most influential and accomplished journalist ? who has made history herself a time or two ? would join us for this histor

A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday.

The final frontier may be tough, but, as a damaged wingtip proves, the space shuttle Enterprise's final journey by barge through New York is no picnic.

Bill White has shifted from supporting Mitt Romney to President Barack Obama over the issue of gay marriage. ?Bill White has shifted from supporting Mitt Romney to President Barack Obama over the issue of gay marriage. White, who is openly gay and previously donated $25,000 to the Romney campaign, has asked the campaign for a refund. ?I feel that I no longer wish to support your presidential campaign and ask that you please return the maximum contribution that I gave to you last year,? White wrote in a letter addressed to the Romney campaign and obtained by CNN. In 2008, White was touted by top retired military leaders and some Democrats in Congress to be the next secretary of the Navy. The former president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum currently serves as the chairman and CEO of the New York-based consulting firm Constellations Group. White married his husband Joseph Bryan Eure last October in a ceremony held at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. Lawyer David Boies,

The US space shuttle Enterprise bowed out Friday on America's biggest stage -- a flyover of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan's skyscrapers -- before going to a museum in New York at the end of an era in American space travel.

The US space shuttle Enterprise on Friday leaves the US capital atop a Boeing 747 jet for a final flyover of New York City as it heads toward a museum where it will go on display.

Discovery on Thursday became the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year manned spaceflight program.

Discovery on Thursday became the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year manned spaceflight program.

Discovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year US space flight program.

Piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday before touching down near its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.

Piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday on the way to its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.

Piggybacking aboard a massive airplane, the US space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday on the way to its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - New York City's event planners are gearing up for a surge in business after the Empire State embraced same-sex marriage and hundreds of couples rush to tie the knot.

The end of the US space shuttle program brings the start of a new chapter for the remaining orbiters, which will soon take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia, California and New York.

Thirty years after the first space flight of the US shuttle program, NASA announced Tuesday the three retiring orbiters will take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia and California.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The three retiring U.S. space shuttles will be going on display at museums in Florida, California and Virginia, the U.S. space agency NASA said on Tuesday.

Bruce Willis salutes troops with Veterans Day party aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City. Bruce Willis, famous for his movie roles, believes the real stars are the military and veterans.