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Shuttle Enterprise begins 4-day move

In this file photo, the rising sun shines

Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | In this file photo, the rising sun shines through the cockpit window of the shuttle Enterprise as it is rolled back into Hangar 12, at Kennedy Airport after being hoisted from the jumbo jet that brought it to New York to a trailer that will carry it on the next step of its journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum, a converted aircraft carrier moored in the Hudson River off Manhattan. (May 13, 2012)

It's moving day -- again -- for space shuttle Enterprise.

Kicking off its four-day move to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan's West Side, a crane Saturday will lift the prototype shuttle from its resting place at Kennedy Airport and put it on a barge.

Sunday morning, the Weeks Marine barge will take the Enterprise along the shore of Queens and Brooklyn to Jersey City,...

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