ahiggins@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Andrew Higgins) (05/12/89)
According to CNN, NASA has announced that the Challenger replacement orbiter
will be named Endeavour. Note the English spelling with the "-our" (which is
fine with me, Anglophile that I am). Since it is the English Endeavour, it
presumedly is named after Cook's ship which discovered New Zealand.
The space ship in _Rendezvous_with_Rama_ was also named Endeavour. Maybe
there are some A. C. Clarke fans at NASA.
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