What would you name a space shuttle?

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I'd name it "Nelly". Nelly is a good name for a (white) elephant.
 

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Why not "Titanic"? I mean...aside of it sounding a bit imperial, what could go wrong? ;)
 

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Why not "Titanic"? I mean...aside of it sounding a bit imperial, what could go wrong? ;)

Hmm..
Maybe some people don't want to fly with it.
But an inerestiong name though.
 

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No more so than Virgin Galactic, which also currently has no plans to go beyond LEO (and won't even reach THAT till SpaceShipThree is ready maybe a decade from now).
 

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I'd say in honour of the man who helped to find out what really happened on Challenger, I would name a Shuttle "Richard P. Feynman".
 

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impodent - kinda tells the whole story about the STS.
 

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how about...
Xenos

i like it
 

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Producers of Space Cowboys should be sued. Naming a spacecraft Daedelus is a copyright infringement, IMO. Virgin Interactive got there first when they released the game The Daedelus Encounter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daedalus_Encounter .

One of my favorite ship names comes from the Star Trek universe. It's a vessel name as well as a vessel class name. I'd have liked to see it on the side of a shuttle.

Excelsior
 

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Just curious... but why bother with names AT ALL...? How many airliners do you know that have names? Sure, there's romance involved in the naming of a ship - nobody will forget something like 'Spirit of St. Louis' - but how many times do you hear "Airliner Wilbur Wright now boarding at Gate Three"...? :rofl:
 

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Чайка (Sea Gull) ;)

Is the translliteration cha-ee-ka? That's not quite a transliteration but maybe how it is pronounced?

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How about naming the shuttle after one of the engineers?
 

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Just curious... but why bother with names AT ALL...? How many airliners do you know that have names? Sure, there's romance involved in the naming of a ship - nobody will forget something like 'Spirit of St. Louis' - but how many times do you hear "Airliner Wilbur Wright now boarding at Gate Three"...? :rofl:

All of the airliners I know have names. KLM and Scandinavian both name their aircraft. In some cases they name 'em after destinations or places, in other cases they name them after famous historical people. In some cases I've seen 'em named for famous pilots.
 

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Interesting... I did not know that - thank you. :speakcool:

It's not something you realize, listening to the airport boarding calls or landing announcements...
 

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Is the translliteration cha-ee-ka

That should be about right, but writing it like that tempts you to put the emphasis on the "ee", while I think čay would be one syllable and the emphasis is on the whole (pronouncing CHAnge in cockney should sound very similiar). At least I would pronounce it like that if the word was in a south slavic tongue (russian is east slavic, if I'm not wrong)...
 
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