Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!iraun1!iravcl!schuetz From: schuetz@iravcl.ira.uka.de Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Naming the space station. Message-ID: <151@iravcl.ira.uka.de> Date: 13 Jun 88 23:33:02 GMT References: <5568@cup.portal.com> <44700001@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Lines: 17 Organisation: Universitaet Karlsruhe, IRA, F.R. Germany In article <44700001@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes: > how about calling it Icarus? > ... Bill Oh no! Ikarus would be a bad omen. The legend says: Daedalus (the father of Ikarus) build two flying apparatus in order to escape from a Greek island. He told his son never fly to low because water would make the feathers heavy and never fly to high because sun would smelt the wax the feathers were fastened. But Ikarus did not obey and flew higher and higher and crashed. Daedalus succeded. Elmar -- We can be heroes - just for one day -- David Bowie