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From: rfc@briar.Philips.Com (Robert Casey)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Nameplates on space probes
Keywords: do they exist?
Message-ID: <112263@philabs.Philips.Com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 02:43:39 GMT
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Just saw the old movie _Star Trek, the Motion Picture_.  Near the end, you see
the old space probe "Voyager 6", with a nameplate.  I know that there is no
Voyager 6 probe, but I was wondering if NASA really puts nameplates with the
name of the probe on the probes.  Who's gonna see it after it's launched?  I
know about the picture plate on the Pioneers, and the picture and sound record
on the Voyagers.

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