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Were there any starship names in Trek named after astronauts? I had an idea a week back and was wondering if there was ever a USS Armstrong or Aldrin etc.
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USS Armstrong (DS9 Apocalpse Rising) USS Grissom NCC-623 (ST3) USS Grissom (DS9 Field of Fire) USS Shepard (ST4)
These are the only ones named after US astronauts as such, I think. There are non-US astronauts and astronomers as well.
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From the Operation Retrieve chart in TUC. NCC-1598. Named for Jack Scovil.
There was also a U.S.S. Hauck (named for NASA astronaut Frederick Hauck) in Rick Sternbach's tech writeup on the Intrepid-class from Star Trek: The Magazine.
The Defiant on DS9 had a shuttle named Chaffee.
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Are we sure that it is named for Jack Scovil? Two other vessels on this chart were named after astronomers, so maybe the Scovil is named after astronomer Charles Scovil.
Who is this Jack Scovil, anyway? The only page that mentions him is yours, MMoM. I've tried "jack scovil+astronaut" and "jack scovil+nasa".
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quote:Originally posted by Jeff Raven: Were there any starship names in Trek named after astronauts? I had an idea a week back and was wondering if there was ever a USS Armstrong or Aldrin etc.
Here's a model I made of Starfleet's starship Armstrong:
quote:Originally posted by Spike: Are we sure that it is named for Jack Scovil? Two other vessels on this chart were named after astronomers, so maybe the Scovil is named after astronomer Charles Scovil.
Who is this Jack Scovil, anyway? The only page that mentions him is yours, MMoM. I've tried "jack scovil+astronaut" and "jack scovil+nasa".
That's the source for the name that's given in Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance, where the ship and the others from TUC are listed. But you could still be right. I don't know whether the name origins were furnished Trimble by Okuda or if she just researched the names herself and picked what she thought was the most likely candidate...
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I've tried to find some reference to this Jack Scovil too. NASA's astronaut pages doesn't list him in any category, either active or former. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio.html
Maybe he's become an unperson somehow?
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Sorry to digress but where are the foward torp launchers for the Armstrong SoundEffect?
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