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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
Message-ID: <2082@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 88 20:48:02 GMT
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Somehow I like "Terra Nova", Scott's ship, although there are a few
negative connotations to it (the entire expedition died on the way back
from the pole).  The name, when translated from the Latin (?) means
"new world", which is appropriate.  He was a reasonably successful
explorer of a hostile environment (Antarctic/Space) funded by the
public (Royal Geographic Society/NASA) engaged in a race with a foreign
explorer (Norway/Soviet Union).  Significantly, although experiments
were done aboard ship, it was primarily a means to get to the place
where the real work would be done.  And after all, isn't that what
Space Transportation System is all about?


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					-- Mark A.
					...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph