Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum showcases the aircraft carrier, the submarine, a Concorde SST, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.Founded in 1982, the museum closed in 2006 for a two-year renovation of Intrepid and facilities. The museum reopened to the public on November 8, 2008.HistoryEarly yearsThe museum opened in 1982 at Pier 86 after Zachary Fisher and his brother Larry Fisher, prominent New York real estate developers, and philanthropist and journalist Michael Stern saved from scrapping in 1978. Intrepid became a National Historic Landmark in 1986.On August 8, 1988, this museum was awarded, a, which carried the nuclear Regulus missile, by the United States Congress from the United States Navy. This submarine is still on display at the museum after extensive renovations in 2009.