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NASA closing in on naming new fleet
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ ^ | 2/27/2006 | Chris Bergin

Posted on 02/27/2006 8:25:34 AM PST by orionblamblam

A huge step up from NASA administrator's 'Apollo on steroids' tag, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) has been christened 'Altair' - named after a variable double star in the constellation Aquila.

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Greek mythology comes into play for the LSAM (Lunar Surface Ascent Module), which receives the name 'Artemis' - the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon. Fittingly, Artemis is also the twin sister of Apollo.

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The Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) gains the name 'Ares I' - as NASA's name choices move into a historical parallel with the previous launch vehicles to take astronauts to the moon.

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The relation to the launch vehicles of old became more apparent when the naming of the CaLV (Cargo Launch Vehicle) was revealed to be 'Ares V' - with sources claiming this was a direct result of wishing to have an identification with the Saturn V.

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Other - more assuming reasoning for the names - could be from a NASA HQ that is full of Stargate SG-1 fans, as Artemis is also the name of a 'Goa'uld' in the television series, and 'Artemis II' was the lunar lander that was attacked by General Zod and his sidekick villains in the movie Superman.

(Excerpt) Read more at nasaspaceflight.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cev; clv; launch; mars; moon; space
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1 posted on 02/27/2006 8:25:36 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam

"Altair" sounds like a vacuum cleaner.


2 posted on 02/27/2006 8:26:42 AM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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To: KevinDavis

Ping!


3 posted on 02/27/2006 8:27:27 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: zarf

Sounds like a car with fins on the back.


4 posted on 02/27/2006 8:27:37 AM PST by akorahil (Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
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To: orionblamblam

Wasn't Altair IV the "Forbidden Planet"?


5 posted on 02/27/2006 8:28:59 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: orionblamblam

oh big deal. they figured out names. isn't that cute? when are they gonna do something meaningful? after the chinese setup diners on the moon?


6 posted on 02/27/2006 8:30:40 AM PST by camle (Keep your mind open and somebody will fill if full of something for you.)
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To: zarf

Altair was a computer.........of sorts.......


7 posted on 02/27/2006 8:30:47 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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To: camle
...after the chinese setup diners on the moon?

I hear the egg drop soup there is out of this world!........on 1/6 the gravity of earth's!......

8 posted on 02/27/2006 8:32:00 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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To: orionblamblam
Altair - first of the Constellation Class. I like.

However, I was hoping the new booster would be called the Neptune, after the post-Saturn booster referenced in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Oh well - we could do a lot worse than Ares. Now if only the newscasters pronounce it correctly: it's "AH-ress", not "Air-EEZ", please. "Aries" is the Zodiacal ram; "Ares" is the Greek god of war.

9 posted on 02/27/2006 8:32:12 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: zarf

Wasn't Altair the name of the carnival game that turned Tom Hanks into a pre-pubescent adult in BIG?

Interesting news, anyway. Didn't know they were making headway in the hunt for the moon.


10 posted on 02/27/2006 8:33:44 AM PST by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / Molwn Labe!)
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To: Red Badger

Does that mean I'll be hungry sooner?


11 posted on 02/27/2006 8:33:45 AM PST by gogeo
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To: B-Chan

Liberals like sheep....too much.

Hence the pronunciation problem.


12 posted on 02/27/2006 8:34:34 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: orionblamblam
The Altair 8800 was one of the very first home computer kits from way back in 1975.


13 posted on 02/27/2006 8:35:38 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: SlowBoat407

I believe so, yes.


14 posted on 02/27/2006 8:36:45 AM PST by orionblamblam (A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
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To: gogeo

LOL! Yes!..........


15 posted on 02/27/2006 8:38:42 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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Will the moon landing be real this time? =)


16 posted on 02/27/2006 8:50:25 AM PST by FreeHueco
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To: orionblamblam

Call it ANT. Apollo - New Technology.


17 posted on 02/27/2006 8:52:43 AM PST by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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To: zarf
"Altair" sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

Used to be an airline by this name that flew DeHavilland Twin Otters in/out of Philly International and various other airports in PA.

18 posted on 02/27/2006 8:55:30 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: orionblamblam

Sounds great. Unfortunately, all the entitlement programs will suck NASA to a dried-out husk.


19 posted on 02/27/2006 8:57:57 AM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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20 posted on 02/27/2006 8:59:20 AM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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