New Orbiter Name Announced

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From: Andrew Higgins
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 23:26

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According to CNN, NASA has announced that the Challenger replacement orbiter
will be named Endeavour.  Note the English spelling with the "-our" (which is
fine with me, Anglophile that I am).  Since it is the English Endeavour, it
presumedly is named after Cook's ship which discovered New Zealand.

The space ship in _Rendezvous_with_Rama_ was also named Endeavour.  Maybe
there are some A. C. Clarke fans at NASA.
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 Andrew J. Higgins	          |     Illini Space Development Society
 ahiggins@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu     |     a chapter of the National Space Society
 phone: (217) 359-0056            |     at the University of Illinois
          P.O. Box 2255 - Station A, Champaign, IL  61825
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 that the future glory of the human race lies in the exploration of at least 
 the solar system!"                          - John Jacob Astor, 1894

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From: ahiggins@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Andrew Higgins)
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Subject: New Orbiter Name Announced
Summary: New shuttle will be named Endeavour
Keywords: shuttle, replacement, Challenger, Endeavour
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Date: 11 May 89 23:26:31 GMT
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