As you may have noticed by our headline the other day, we had another chance to go behind the scenes with the National Air & Space Museum’s conservation team, who have been working on the classic USS Enterprise filming model since late 2014.

Thanks to curator Margaret Weitekamp and conservators Malcolm Collum and Ariel O’Connor, our video and photography team traveled once again to the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, to get up close and personal with the disassembled Enterprise model, being prepared for the extensive overhaul which is being started soon, to get the model back on display by July 2016.

Now that the model is all separated into its component parts, our contributing photographer Kelly Phillips of Pixelation Photography was able to produce several dozen wonderful shots of all the pieces that make up this decades-old starship – check out some of our shots below!













































We’ve got a whole bunch of video interviews coming over the next few weeks, diving deep into the different restoration and conservation processes that the Smithsonian team will be implementing over the next several months.

In the meantime, be sure to check out our first feature, with conservator Malcolm Collum and how a new deflector dish is being prepared for the model.

Stay tuned, as we’ve got lots more to come!