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To: NativeNewYorker
As streets at air bases are named after fallen pilots, future spacecraft could bear the names of fallen astronauts.

This would be a good idea, too; better, in that someone would be more likely to wonder why a craft bore a particular person's name rather than an adjective. I remember wondering why a car was called an "Edsel". I didn't wonder what went into naming the Mustang.
11 posted on 02/03/2003 6:09:59 AM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
"I remember wondering why a car was called an "Edsel"."

It was named after one of the Ford Grandsons, but a simpering rump-swab named Robert S. McNamara, before took a "higher calling" to totally screw up the Pentagon!

45 posted on 02/03/2003 10:25:02 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
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