[FPSPACE] Space Station Alpha

[Larry Klaes]

Well, it beats the Reagan name of Freedom.

Just think, we could have had World Peace (the two meanings
of Mir) and Freedom circling our planet every 90 minutes.

Hoy.

You would think for $60 billion that they could have come
up with a simple name in the meantime.

Ah well, even the big spinning wheel in 2001: A Space 
Odyssey was simply known as Space Station V (where were
the other four?).  Ah, 1968, when we dreamed big.

How about O'Neill, after the guy who promoted those big
space cities in the 1970s (it could be touted as the first
of the space colonies Gerard envisioned).  And since his
name is Irish, it would keep that international flavor
as well. :^)

http://www.ssi.org/

Has anything been named for Tsiolkovsky yet?  He would
certainly qualify.

http://sr11.xoom.com/aeronautic/tsiolk/

Or how about Stepping Stone or Visitor Parking Only?

Larry


At 02:21 PM 11/02/2000 -0500, Dwayne Allen Day wrote:

>I'm surprised I have not seen any comment on this here yet.
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>When the Expedition One crew entered the ISS last night they requested
>that they be allowed to refer to the station as Space Station Alpha.  This
>was apparently a universal decision of the crew.  Dan Goldin was suprised,
>but agreed with the radio call sign for now.  Apparently the Russians
>don't like this, since it implied that ISS is the first station.  They
>apparently prefer Beta or even Mir 2.
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>Frankly, I think Alpha is rather boring.  But I think that the most
>appropriate name for the ISS is not printable...
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>DDAY
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