Shuttle Enterprise's trip postponed a day

Space shuttle Enterprise's trip up the Hudson River planned for Wednesday has been postponed because of bad weather, museum officials said.

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum said Monday that inclement weather forced the delay, and that the new day for the trip is Thursday.

The shuttle is at a port in Jersey City. The rain and wind the region experienced Monday caused delays in work needed to prepare the shuttle for the next phase of its trip.

Enterprise, a shuttle prototype, left Kennedy Airport on a barge Sunday and was towed past thousands of spectators to Jersey City, where workers were scheduled to transfer the craft to another barge before floating it up the Hudson.

The ride up the river is to deliver the shuttle to its new home at the Intrepid museum, at West 46th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan.

The shuttle had been at Kennedy Airport since it was flown from Washington atop a modified Boeing 747 jet in April.

During Sunday's transport from the airport to Jersey City, the shuttle's wingtip sustained light cosmetic damage when a wind gust caused it to graze a wood piling, museum officials said.