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From: karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
Summary: terra nova
Message-ID: <1223@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 12 Jul 88 20:26:56 GMT
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> Somehow I like "Terra Nova", Scott's ship...
> ...The name, when translated from the Latin (?) means "new world",
> which is appropriate...

And "nova" in Spanish means "(it) doesn't go", which seems even more
appropriate as a space shuttle name.

Phil
(a Nova owner)