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From: ICEMAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Joakim Karlsson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Space shuttle name.
Message-ID: <4943@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:49:01 GMT
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In article <7340@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
 
>You can discuss renaming of a ship here, but remember two things:
>1) The power that be, don't read this (newsgroup).  I won't forward it.
>I'm supposed to do research, not be a PR person.
>
>2) One of your colleagues can quietly take one of your `excellent' names
>and snail mail it in (probably hundreds, since they will probably get
>--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
 
I thought NASA has already decided to let school children name it, and that
it ought to be named after a famous research vessel.  So isn't the net
discussion here academic anyway?
 
Joakim Karlsson                               iceman @ pucc.Princeton.edu
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering '88      BITNET only: iceman @ pucc
Princeton University
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