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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Re: A new Shuttle to replace Challenger: What Name?
Message-ID: <2911@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 11:31:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 11:31:29 1986
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In message <3035@umcp-cs.UUCP>, mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:

> I suggest a new shuttle should be named _Endeavour_.  It is a name Laden
> with a history of scientific exploration, and it fits well with the other
> names.  Or, if the remebrance is prefered, name the new shuttle _Challenger_.
>
> C. Wingate

_Endeavour_ would be a good name, but not _Challenger_.  Call me
sentimental, but when a ship is destroyed, its name should not used
again.  To me, that would almost be like saying "Well, it blew up.  Oh,
well, we'll just make a new one and everything will be OK."  As for
naming it _Christa_ or _McAlliffe_ (sp?), I don't think that should be
done, since there were 6 other people who died, too.  I know, she was a
civilian, not a military person trained to deal with the possibility of
getting killed.  But favoring her over the other 6 does not seem fair.
Now if we could get 7 new shuttles instead of just 1, ... :-).

BTW, did the Russians run out of craters on Venus or what?  Surely they
could find 5 more to name after the men abord the shuttle.  I like the
idea of naming 7 of the newly discovered moons of Uranus after the
astronauts.


					Don Nash

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