Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff
From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Name for New Shuttle
Summary: another reason why Constitution might be it
Keywords: New Shuttle name
Message-ID: <5624@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 19:13:11 GMT
References: <538@ablnc.ATT.COM> <4816@hplabsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Organization: Independent Users Guild
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In article <4816@hplabsb.UUCP> dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) writes:
>In article <538@ablnc.ATT.COM>, rcpilz@ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert C. Pilz) writes:
>> Maybe re-use of the letter C as in Constitution.....
>
>Fascinating.  Constitution was to be the name of the atmospheric
>test machine, before the Trekkies prevailed upon Pres. Ford to rename
>it Enterprise.

And don't forget that 1989 is the bicentennial of the US Constitution.
Might the coincidence be just too much to ignore?



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