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From: william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Naming the space station.
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Date: 17 Jun 88 10:56:00 GMT
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Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!william    Jun 17 10:56:00 1988


> Oh no! Ikarus would be a bad omen.
> ...
> But Ikarus did not obey and flew higher and higher and crashed.
> Daedalus succeded.
> 
> Elmar

I wouldnt say that it is a bad omen.  Lets look ahead to a couple of
years after the station goes up, and it gets hit by a piece of space
junk, or a shuttle crashes into it, or someone inadvertantly turns
all its space-facing manoeuvering jets on full power, or anything else
causing an unscheduled landing in Siberia.  And then, for the first time
ever, people will be lauding the fore-sightedness of the guys at NASA!
An awesome concept!

Alternatively, I will vote for "Space Station Titanic".

			... Bill Witts

UCL, London, Europe.	Don't believe everything you hear,
william@uk.ac.ucl.cs	or anything you say.