NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:20 pm

NASA will later today admit to an embarrassing paperwork error in the 1990s that led the agency to fly two of its space shuttle orbiters with the wrong names for almost two decades.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1404/01shuttle/

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:44 pm

And they announce this on April 1st? Right!

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:30 am

Yes this was an April Fools...

SirArian · Post by **SirArian** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:23 am

JazHaz wrote:
Yes this was an April Fools...

We hope...

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:28 pm

Does it matter, now that the shuttles are in museums?

SirArian · Post by **SirArian** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:52 pm

Nope. It probably wouldn't have mattered even if they weren't. They would just go with the new names. What is a name, but a word by which a thing is to be called?

spud42 · Post by **spud42** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:29 am

SirArian wrote:
Nope. It probably wouldn't have mattered even if they weren't. They would just go with the new names. What is a name, but a word by which a thing is to be called?

paraphrase Shakespeare??? "a rose by any other name"?

SirArian · Post by **SirArian** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:24 am

spud42 wrote:
paraphrase Shakespeare??? "a rose by any other name"?

Pretty much!

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