Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay 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 Lines: 20 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. :-) -- "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