Apollo, Gemini, Mercury were great names: short, mythological, easy to pronounce!
Nowadays, there are professionnals who's job is to find a name (my company is called Fortis, which has nothing much to do with banking and insurance, but it's the name.
Aventis also is a new kind of name (to latinize with "is" seems fashionable).
Keo is the name of a project for our descendants in 50,000 years...the word "keo" is the most recognisable in the world (meaning all cultures understand the word (not what it means but that's not the point)).
So, it should be a compromise between factors like pronounciation (Fred Haise said that Aries had once been chosen for the LM name but "Aries" didn't sound good on the microphone), mythology (perhaps), flying, exploration, characters....
But it should have a name! Not like ISS , de grâce!
Raoul.
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re: The capsule
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- The capsule
- will it be reusable?
- Great idea! Back to the sixties when space was safe enuf for chimp pilots!
- Unlike what the article implied, capsules don't have to come down in water
- re: The capsule
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