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From: daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space shuttle name.
Message-ID: <19661@sci.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 05:25:22 GMT
References: <7340@ames.arpa> <6687@ames.arpa> <191800004@trsvax> <4943@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Silicon Compilers Systems Corp. San Jose, Ca
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Summary: Research vessel?

In article <4943@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, ICEMAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Joakim Karlsson) writes:
> 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?

You mean like The Beagle?  Not exactly the sort of name i'd pick for a
shuttle, but it would show that NASA might be regaining its sense of humor.


david rickel
decwrl!sci!daver