New Space Shuttle Names

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Rastus

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Enterprise would work for me.

Actually, they'll probably sell the naming rights to Nike or Coke or someone.
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: Amused

The Enterprise was never operational. It was just a big glider.

They didn't specify that it had to be operational. They just said it had to be a Space Shuttle. The Enterprise was a Space Shuttle, used for testing. Just like the early Apollo craft that never left the ground.
 

ActuaryTm

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Somehow, I do not believe the administration would approve the USS Peener Flap.

A shame.
 

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Lifer
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Hopefully whatever we next build will be manufactured in such great numbers that we don't even bother to name them, just give them tail numbers like airliners.