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From: tomk@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
Summary: Star Wars 'Astronomy'
Message-ID: <877@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 88 03:46:38 GMT
References: <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <44700004@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
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In article <44700004@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:

[talk about naming the next Shuttle preceeds this message] 
> Bob sounds fine to me.  Also, Falcon was mentioned as an Apollo 15
> name - was that a research ship?  Of course, if NASA is really keen
> on getting popular approval, it could modify this to Millenium Falcon.
> And we could do the Launch to LEO in under 12 parsecs!
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      
....I hate to say it, but last time I looked, 'parsec' was a unit of length,
specifically 3.26 light years. B-)


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