On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:34:43 +0200, in a place far, far away, nmp
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

The others with the narrow viewpoint, do they include the writers of
dictionaries and the people who named the US Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle?

Yes, if they demand that all space vehicles in the future be called
"shuttles."

Zeurpiet.

Calling people names of which few in the newsgroup have any idea as to
the meaning is a waste of bandwidth. And childish.

Nobody is demanding anything.

OK, then expect people to correct you when you call something
something it's not.

It's just practical to call a space shuttle
a space shuttle, especially if said vehicle is indeed performing shuttle
services in space.

Really?

What are "shuttle services"? Shuttle delivered tens of thousands of
pounds of payload to orbit, acted as a temporary space station,
repaired satellites, provided crew transportation to and from orbit,
with EVA capability, rendezvoused with other large objects, sometimes
grappled them and put them in the payload bay, returned them to earth,
etc.

Which of those services will you arbitrarily accept aren't "shuttle
services," such that you can decide that any future vehicle that
doesn't provide them can and should still be called a "shuttle"?
Because Kliper will do very few of them.