[FPSPACE] Space Station Alpha

[Brett Harrison]

Interesting.  I like one suggestion made in that forum:  "Albatross".

* It's a big soaring "bird"
* There is some morphological resemblance, with the solar arrays providing an
impressive wingspan
Subsequent staions could be named after birds, progressing through the
(admittedly English/Roman)alphabet.  E.g. Bustard (!), Coot etc.  Sheesh!  OK,
I'm not good at bird names...
* It's bad luck to drop an Albatross from the sky
* Semantic link with "sailor" analogy of "astronaut", "cosmonaut", "taikonaut"
etc.



Raoul Lannoy wrote:
> 
> When MSNBC proposed to name the station, many  came up with ideas and I'm
> ROTFL about this (yes, november 1):
> http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-space/posts/xc/87955.asp
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Raoul
> 
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