New manned Moon lander is named "Altair".

Jochem Huhmann wrote:

I still have the suspicion that the DoD had some spiffy ideas what to do
with a launcher capable of 60t of payload and this was the sole reason
for Bush to talk of going to the Moon and Mars...


That's the same thing I think.
That space-based ABM concept and the general militarization of space
were ideas that were near and dear to the hearts of the neocons in the
Bush White House, and I suspect that the new boosters were somehow
related to that.

Pat

On Dec 13, 8:23 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:


I'm still suspicious of that Ares name; it's very odd for a civilian
spacecraft, unless the reference is to Mars, the Roman god of war.

Let's see....its butt ugly and emits foul-smelling gasses. It was
named by a dyslexic Brit.

John Halpenny

On Dec 14, 6:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Via NASA watch:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._to_the_m.html

Pat

Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?

:-)

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:38:39 -0800 (PST), Neil Gerace
wrote:

On Dec 14, 6:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Via NASA watch:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._to_the_m.html

Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?

....Or 99/4A or VIC-20, for that matter?

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On Dec 14, 2:40 pm, OM wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:38:39 -0800 (PST), Neil Gerace

wrote:
On Dec 14, 6:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Via NASA watch:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._to_the_m.html
Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?

...Or 99/4A or VIC-20, for that matter?


As long as we're in that era:

How about QDOS - quick and dirty orbiting spacecraft?

Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?

...Or 99/4A or VIC-20, for that matter?



As long as we're in that era:

How about QDOS - quick and dirty orbiting spacecraft?

Or Atari 800... :-) I had one of those, and a ton of prrated SW.

Or call it EDLIN... :-)

Neil Gerace wrote:
On Dec 14, 6:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:

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

Pat


Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?


Why not Altaira?:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/russell...by_altaira.jpg

Pat ;-)


Pat
:-)

Neil Gerace wrote:
On Dec 14, 6:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Via NASA watch:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20..._to_the_m.html

Pat

Altair? Why not Apple or Commodore?

Trash-80?

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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

....Two points about this one:

1) Notice how NASA didn't give the Trekkies a chance to stuff the
ballot box on naming it the Enterprise, nor did they give some
retarded 6th grader the "honor" of giving it a name that nobody liked,
such as Sojourner, Spirit or Opportunity?

2) This has to be the first NASA Bitch story I've read in a while that
wasn't Keith Cowing ranting, babbling and acting all butthurt over
having been fired for being a dip****.

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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

....A little update: Although NASA did this so quick and quiet that the
Trekkies didn't have a say in the naming, the patch *does* have a Trek
connection. Former .history regular and graphic designer for several
of the post-TOS series, Mike Okuda, was the designer for the patch.
It's not a shabby design at all, but I have to admit Mike could have
put a bit more *detail* into it. Sometimes simple lines aren't the
best.

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