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Old December 13th 07, 11:38 PM posted to sci.space.history
Brian Thorn[_2_]
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Default New manned Moon lander is named "Altair".

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:42:01 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Via NASA watch:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._to_the_m.html


Why call a program "Constellation" if the individual parts are named
for constellations? We already have "Orion". "Aquila" (the Eagle, of
which Altair is the brightest star) or "Aquarius" would have been
better names.

Brian