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Constellation

Frankly, the name Constellation may be french originally, but if the next kind of spacacrafts will be named that way, I have a little problem.
First, it reminds more of astrology than of astronomy.
Second, the Shuttles were named after famous ships; the next spacecraft won't be at all like the Shuttles.
Third: the name is too long!!

Constellation One, this is Houston, over.....

Every previous spacraft had 3 syllables: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Endeavour (ok, Discovery also had 4 syllables (though "very" can be shortened to "vry" but also you don't add the flight number in Shuttle flights).

Why not be as imaginative as during the early NASA years?

Raoul

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