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Secret Name For NASA Craft Slips Out
Associated Press ^
| 08/22/06
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Posted on 08/22/2006 12:56:54 PM PDT by FReepaholic
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The name of the new vehicle that NASA hopes returns astronauts to the moon was supposed to be kept hush until an announcement scheduled for next week at the earliest.
But apparently U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams, floating 220 miles above Earth at the International Space Station, did not get the memo.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iss; moonbase; nasa; orion; space
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Oops. Astronaut Williams just violated the sacred astronaut credo: "Don't F*ck Up"
To: FReepaholic
"Don't F*ck Up"Is that the name of the spacecraft?
To: andy58-in-nh
No. I think the new name will be STFU. :)
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:58:26 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: FReepaholic
"Don't F*ck Up" That's DFU for short.
To: FReepaholic
It's funny. While the Apollo craft obviously had a name, NASA never gave a name to the lunar module, simply calling it "the LEM."
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:01:12 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: FReepaholic
Orion will bring Hoagland to an even higher fever pitch.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: FReepaholic
Begorah..they be namin' it after Mr. O'Ryan
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:02:15 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: My2Cents
They had to shorten that to LM, since the E stood for excursion and NASA didn't want anyone to get the idea that the lunar landing would be a vacation or picnic.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:03:30 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: FReepaholic
Since NASA's already been to the moon, the name should be
Apollo 2.
Oops, that's already been done. But then again, so has the mission.
In other news, Portugal will be launching some wooden sailing ships to explore North America.
.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:03:51 PM PDT
by
repentant_pundit
(For the Sons and Daughters of Every Planet on the Earth)
To: My2Cents
Ahem.....The Eagle has landed.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:03:58 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: My2Cents
I think Neil Armstrong's LEM was named "Eagle".
To: RightWhale
Since there's a history of naming US spacecraft after Greek gods and heros, how about "Hermes"? :-)
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:06:22 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:06:35 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: FReepaholic
Come on, everyone wants to call it 'Enterprise' and you know it.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:07:42 PM PDT
by
jbwbubba
To: San Jacinto
Apollo 9's LM was named "Gumdrop." These were official names.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:07:58 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: My2Cents
Sorry, these wereN'T official names.
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:08:35 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: FReepaholic
We already had an
Orion, also known as project "boom boom." It was well represented in the movie
Deep Impact and better in the book
Footfall:
"Take a big metal plate," Curtis said. "Big and thick. Make it a hemisphere, but it could even be flat. Put a large ship, say the size of a battleship, on top of it. You want a really good shock absorber system between the plate and the ship.
"Now put an atom bomb underneath and light it off, I guarantee you that sucker will move." He sketched as he talked. "You keep throwing atom bombs underneath the ship. It puts several million pounds into orbit. In fact, the more mass youve got, the smoother the ride."
And Williams didn't "screw the pooch." He did as asked and taped a message on the topic for use by NASA at a later date. The screw up was when that taped message was transmitted in the clear over a channel open to eavedropping. Dare we suggest that the presstitute who got this scoop is guily of a warrantless wiretap?
But I love the comment "I guarantee you that sucker will move."
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:10:02 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: My2Cents
Apparently, the name has already been used:
To: FReepaholic
OREO!
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:10:44 PM PDT
by
texson66
("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:10:45 PM PDT
by
evets
(I'm happy.)
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