[FPSPACE] Russia names politician to military cosmonaut corps

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Woods, Dave wrote:

> Two interesting items with this posting.  First, I believe this is the first
> mention of the name of "Alpha" by anyone from the Russian side, other 
> than the current ISS crew.  Previous postings had suggested that it 
> had connotations of "Alpha" meaning the first space station, and thus 
> ignoring the contributions of earlier Salyut, Mir and Skylab stations.
> Looks like the name is being accepted.

Well, note that it is a cosmonaut saying this, not a Russian space
official.  Shepherd and his fellow colleagues in orbit clearly liked the
name, but it was Dan Goldin and Russian space officials who were not
thrilled with it.


> Secondly, the Aerospace Daily article itself was prepared by Dmitry 
> Pieson, one of our Russian contributors to discussions on FPSPACE.  
> Congratulation,  Dima.  We look for many more.

Ditto on the congrats.



DDAY