Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ece-csc!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1095@ncspm.ncsu.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 18:42:46 GMT References: <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <772@noao.UUCP> <5402@dasys1.UUCP> <2285@sugar.UUCP> <5441@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith) Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University Lines: 20 In article <5441@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: >In article <2285@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >>How about "Endeavour"? > >Clearly an odds-on favorite, except you wonder if NASA would keep the >Anglicized "ou" spelling. I believe they did when the names "Falcon" and "Endeavour" were used for, um, ah, was it Apollo 15? Speaking of Apollo: cast your mind back to Apollo 17 if you want a good name for Challenger's replacement. Its LM was named "Challenger," and the CSM was "America," which I think is an excellent name for a shuttle. The Apollo 17 namesakes may have been racing yachts, though. Was "America" ever the name of a ship of exploration? -- "It's quiet out there. Too quiet.I always wanted to say that!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay C. Smith uucp: ...!mcnc!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay Domain: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu internet: jay%ncspm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu