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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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To: RightWhale
I guess that's just the belt?
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posted on
08/22/2006 1:41:13 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
To: cabojoe
Sure, but it should have a significance to Ares/Orion. They must have thought it out that far when they were brainstorming over the emblem.
62
posted on
08/22/2006 1:42:57 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: FReepaholic
I knew about the name years ago ..... but when I whispered it to my cat one day, NASA was forced to change it.
63
posted on
08/22/2006 1:43:52 PM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: FReepaholic
At least they didn't call it "the Urine"
64
posted on
08/22/2006 1:44:43 PM PDT
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: RightWhale
They should know better than to not consult us. lol
65
posted on
08/22/2006 1:44:43 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
To: FReepaholic
They should come up with something better than that. You know, something that captures the true spirit of the space program these days. I was thinking of the name "Titanic."
To: FReepaholic
Rosebud...
67
posted on
08/22/2006 1:46:18 PM PDT
by
NonLinear
(He's dead, Jim)
To: FReepaholic
Ford Orion
68
posted on
08/22/2006 1:48:12 PM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: My2Cents
I guess this new venture will be called "The Orion Program" then? Since the command vehicles will be reusable, I would guess they'll have their own names. Maybe "Hermes" is still in the running. If it is shaped a certain way, will it be called Genital Hermes?
69
posted on
08/22/2006 1:48:14 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: Fighting Irish
Squirrels have been working on that one.
70
posted on
08/22/2006 1:54:39 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
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.
Really! Interesting. If people were that ignorant back then, it just affirms my feelings about the general masses today......
71
posted on
08/22/2006 1:57:02 PM PDT
by
united1000
("The price of greatness is responsibility. " Sir Winston Churchill)
To: FReepaholic
We've known for a couple weeks that it was to be called "Orion." And that's sad... there's only *one* spacecraft called Orion:
72
posted on
08/22/2006 1:58:27 PM PDT
by
orionblamblam
(I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
To: My2Cents
Since there's a history of naming US spacecraft after Greek gods and heros, how about "Hermes"?Sounds contagious...
73
posted on
08/22/2006 1:59:07 PM PDT
by
FDNYRHEROES
(Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
To: united1000
It was the beginning of PC. Or at the time of the beginning of PC. Don't want to offend anyone by making them think a lunar landing would be a cakewalk. Not sure how that idea would be offensive but NASA was already feeling the sensitivity thing.
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posted on
08/22/2006 2:01:18 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: My2Cents
CSM-104 Command Module (Gumdrop) and LM-3 (Spider)
75
posted on
08/22/2006 2:01:21 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: FReepaholic
If I had my choice we'd be naming these"
"John W. Campbell"
"Hugo Gernsback"
"Robert A. Heinlein"
"Issac Asimov"
"Poul Anderson"
That's a good start for the fleet...
76
posted on
08/22/2006 2:01:47 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
(The Solution to the GOP's Problems Isn't More Democrats!!!)
To: FReepaholic
So the name is Orion...I don't like it. Orion was a plan to build a spacecraft powered by setting off nukes under a big hemispherical plate. This just doesn't have the same panash.
77
posted on
08/22/2006 2:03:15 PM PDT
by
6ppc
To: GreenLanternCorps
78
posted on
08/22/2006 2:05:09 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
>Orion will bring Hoagland to an even higher fever pitch.
19.5
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posted on
08/22/2006 2:05:25 PM PDT
by
RSteyn
To: Phsstpok
But I love the comment "I guarantee you that sucker will move." The best line in the book was when they launched.
God was knocking and he wanted in BAD!
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posted on
08/22/2006 2:05:33 PM PDT
by
6ppc
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