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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <2285@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 88 01:20:14 GMT
References: <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <772@noao.UUCP> <5402@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <5402@dasys1.UUCP>, tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
> OK, so NASA wants to name the new Orbiter after a research/exploration
> ocean vessel.

> So we're left, mostly, with American and (tamer) British names.  It
> would be nice to see a list of candidates.

How about "Endeavour"? This was the vessel in which Captain James Cook
discovered the east coast of Australia (and ended the Dreamtime). Joseph
Banks was the chief scientist (naturalist) on board.

Or, how about the "Beagle"?
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