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From: wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Enterprise
Message-ID: <431@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 10:03:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 10:03:30 1986
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Why not name the group net.enterprise then?  It was the first shuttle used,
albeit not in orbit.

Second question:  someone recently posted some pertinent questions about
the Enterprise.  What is it's exact status?  Is is a fully operational
shuttle or can it be made into a fully operational shuttle?  It would seem
to be a far cheaper/faster solution rather than having another one built
from scratch.

Thirdly, why not rename all of the existing shuttles, and name future shuttles
and spacecraft after all of the persons who have died in the space program?
The original Apollo 3, the Challenger 7 and even the Russian 3/4 who have
died in the space exploration programs?  We name ships by class, why not
extablish astronaut/cosmonaut names as the class for space vehicles?

--Bill--