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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
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To: orionblamblam
"Altair" sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:26:42 AM PST
by
zarf
(It's time for a college football playoff system.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:27:27 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: zarf
Sounds like a car with fins on the back.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:27:37 AM PST
by
akorahil
(Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
To: orionblamblam
Wasn't Altair IV the "Forbidden Planet"?
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:28:59 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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?
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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.)
To: zarf
Altair was a computer.........of sorts.......
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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...)
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!......
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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...)
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.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:32:12 AM PST
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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.
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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!)
To: Red Badger
Does that mean I'll be hungry sooner?
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:33:45 AM PST
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gogeo
To: B-Chan
Liberals like sheep....too much.
Hence the pronunciation problem.
To: orionblamblam
The Altair 8800 was one of the very first home computer kits from way back in 1975.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:35:38 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: SlowBoat407
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:36:45 AM PST
by
orionblamblam
(A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
To: gogeo
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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...)
Will the moon landing be real this time? =)
To: orionblamblam
Call it ANT. Apollo - New Technology.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:52:43 AM PST
by
narby
(Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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.
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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.)
To: orionblamblam
Sounds great. Unfortunately, all the entitlement programs will suck NASA to a dried-out husk.
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posted on
02/27/2006 8:57:57 AM PST
by
pabianice
(contact ebay??)
To: pabianice
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02/27/2006 8:59:20 AM PST
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pabianice
(contact ebay??)
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