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January 8th 20, 06:05 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Greg \(Strider\) Moore
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What to expect
"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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In article ,
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On Jan/6/2020 at 18:02, Jeff Findley wrote :
In article ,
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Niklas Holsti wrote:
On 2020-01-06 14:19, Jeff Findley wrote:
SpaceX clearly sees Dragon 2 as a
stepping stone to Starliner, ...
Ahem. I assume you mean "Starship", don't you?
(Damn this hyperbolic fashion of using "star" in naming spacecraft
not
designed for interstellar travel.)
Heh. The Starship is more of a Starliner than the Starliner.
The Starliner would more properly be named Starrowboat.
How about Startaxi? That would fit its purpose.
I would expect an airport-taxi to offer rides to the airport, a
city-taxi to offer rides around the city and a Startaxi to offer rides
to the stars. Even if you include the Sun as a star, Starliner is a
several orders of magnitudes short of being worthy of the Startaxi
moniker.
How about Taxi-Leo? :-)
Agreed. Or: Leotaxi
Well it can navigate too, so.. a
Leonav-Taxi... Say it with a soft A..
Doesn't sound as glamorous as Starliner though. ;-)
Jeff
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