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NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:20 pm
by JazHaz
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/
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:44 pm
by Smivs
And they announce this on April 1st? Right!
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:30 am
by JazHaz
Yes this was an April Fools...
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:23 am
by SirArian
JazHaz wrote:Yes this was an April Fools...
We hope...
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:28 pm
by JazHaz
Does it matter, now that the shuttles are in museums?
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:52 pm
by SirArian
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?
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:29 am
by spud42
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"?
Re: NASA officials to disclose space shuttle orbiter mix-up
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:24 am
by SirArian
spud42 wrote:paraphrase Shakespeare??? "a rose by any other name"?
Pretty much!