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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Endeavor [sic]
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Date: 25 Apr 91 23:31:48 GMT
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In article <9407@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@ed8sun4.nswses.Navy.MIL (Gordon C Zaft) writes:
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>Is this correct?  Endeavour? Why the British spelling?  That just doesn't
>make sense....

Like the other shuttles, it was named after an historical (wet-ocean-going)
exploratory vessel.  The original Endeavour was British.

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