Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Endeavor [sic] Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 14:57:09 GMT References: <1991Apr24.010610.4233@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <281622DA.6F80@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <9407@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle Distribution: na Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: zaft@ed8sun4.nswses.Navy.MIL's message of 25 Apr 91 18:31:05 GMT In article <9407@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@ed8sun4.nswses.Navy.MIL (Gordon C Zaft) writes: In article <281622DA.6F80@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> noe@sunc2.cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe) writes: >In article <1991Apr24.010610.4233@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> jfe@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >>I have a couple of questions regarding the Endeavor. > >Endeavour. > Is this correct? Endeavour? Why the British spelling? That just doesn't make sense.... Why doesn't it make sense? It's named after a British ship, after all. Interestingly enough, at the Endeavour rollout yesterday, Brandenstein was presented with a piece of the sternpost of HMS Endeavour, which will fly on the eponymous Shuttle on its first flight in May, 1992. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "Turn to kill, not to engage." CDR Willie Driscoll