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From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1084@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 17:43:33 GMT
References: <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <772@noao.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith)
Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University
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In article <772@noao.UUCP> groves@noao.arizona.edu (Lee Groves) writes:
>From article <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov 
>(Peter E. Yee):
>>The name proposed must be of a 
>>sea vessel used in research or exploration.
>
>Why this restriction on the name?

So that it fits in with the naming of the other shuttle orbiters.  Columbia,
Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis were all named for sea vessels used in
research or exploration.  The testbed shuttle, Enterprise, was named for
a future space vessel of research and exploration.  :-)



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