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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: News release of net interest
Message-ID: <819@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 88 16:33:10 GMT
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From article <840@ncspm.ncsu.edu>, by jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith):
> BTW, did the Skylab command modules have names?  Did the Apollo-Soyuz
> CM have a name?  Is the designation "Apollo XVIII" that some references
> use for Apollo-Soyuz really justified (was it ever officially that)?
> Jay C. Smith                    uucp:     ...!mcnc!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay

No, the Skylab missions just used SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4 (although
in media releases they were often referred to as Skylab 1,2,and 3
on the grounds that the press wouldn't be able to understand that
SL-1 was the unpiloted space station launched first. Very confusing).
ASTP Apollo was just that, never Apollo 18 in any official NASA
document that I've seen -its call sign was just 'Apollo', and the
spacecraft usually referred to as 'ASTP'. The Soyuz-19 craft on the same 
 mission was reported to use the call-sign 'Soyuz' in
the joint part of the mission, but probably used commander Leonov's
call sign 'Almaz' in the independent part of its flight.
US piloted spacecraft names pre-STS were:

Mercury: Freedom 7, Liberty Bell 7, Friendship 7, Aurora 7, Sigma 7, Faith 7
Gemini 3: Molly Brown (unofficial)
Apollo 9-17: Gumdrop/Spider, Charlie Brown/Snoopy, Columbia/Eagle, 
Yankee Clipper/Intrepid, Odyssey/Aquarius, Kitty Hawk/Antares,
Endeavour/Falcon, Casper/Orion, America/Challenger




- Jonathan