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Topic: Report: Shuttle orbiter mix-up misleads museums
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-01-2014 09:43 AM
   
NASA will later today (April 1) admit to a paperwork error that led the agency to fly two of its space shuttle orbiters with the wrong names for almost two decades, Spaceflight Now reports. The news that space shuttle Atlantis is actually space shuttle Endeavour and the shuttle thought to be Endeavour is really Atlantis will be disclosed by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at a hastily called press conference. The error occurred in the 1990s when the then NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin reintroduced the space agency's 1960s-era "meatball" logo and ordered the shuttle fleet to be repainted. ...curators at museums in Florida and California, were reeling after NASA officials briefed them on the mistake. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3386
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-01-2014 09:48 AM
Yeah, right!  |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 04-01-2014 10:31 AM
Happy April Fools day to all. |
bwhite1976
Member Posts: 281
From: Belleville, IL
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-01-2014 10:58 AM
How could this have happened??? Ha Ha... Good one. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 04-01-2014 02:15 PM
If it were true, souvenir and patch collectors on cS would have a field day  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-01-2014 02:57 PM
Actually, the truth is, OV-105 was never supposed to have an 'O' in its name, but when the name got painted on the doors, some worker accidentally painted "Endeavuur". They solved that problem by converting the first 'U' to an 'O' and kept it secret for almost 25 years... |
lspooz
Member Posts: 384
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted 04-01-2014 03:50 PM
Wow, this is true (I had to look up the spelling at dictionary.com, which incidentally has announced they deleted the word gullible from lack of use...).Pay no attention to Capt. Cook's ship nor that pesky command module. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 04-01-2014 06:54 PM
Actually, aliens from the planet BR549 repainted the orbiter names while on orbit... Yep, that one was lame and late, but at least I gave it a shot for April Fool's Day... |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 04-02-2014 01:31 AM
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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
Actually, the truth is, OV-105 was never supposed to have an 'O' in its name, but when the name got painted on the doors, some worker accidentally painted "Endeavuur".
But then, you Americans never could spell. To 'u' or not to 'u', that is the question. And Capt. Cook? All these years I've thought that the last shuttle was named after Insp. Morse. |
Headshot
Member Posts: 864
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 04-03-2014 07:52 PM
Actually I am still waiting for some fool from Congress (sorry, I repeat myself) to publicly cite this as, "yet another example of big government incompetence and wasteful spending."Take it from me, we will hear about this again before November. |
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