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From: maugorn@c3pe.UUCP (Steve "Maugorn" Haug)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: News release of net interest
Message-ID: <2518@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 88 21:25:25 GMT
References: <6687@ames.arpa> <191800004@trsvax> <1785@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: maugorn@c3pe.UUCP (Steve "Maugorn" Haug)
Organization: C3 Inc., Herndon, VA
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In article <1785@ur-tut.UUCP> kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) writes:
>Personally, I think the name "Phoenix" would be most appropriate for
>the new shuttle.  Arising from the ashes of the old, the shuttle lives
>on. 
>
>I don't think "Phoenix" will catch on, and I doubt anyone who read what
>I just wrote will, either.

You're not alone.   I also believe that "Phoenix" would be an absolutely 
incredible name for the new shuttle.                  
Who knows, maybe with a name like that, the folks who build it might 
work a little harder to make it a tribute and not a self-fulfilling 
prophecy?
				Maugorn