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Author Topic: Trek and NASA? Pwesty Member Member # 1035 posted                       Hi Guys Having watch a lot of the on going mission to Mars and just starting watching some of stuff back from the Cassini mission going on at Saturn and just loving it all I have a question. I was wondering how much of an influence trek has on NASA cause I look at these missions and they just have a �Trek� spirit to them. Anybody else have any felling on this? Just wondering and thank ;-) Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Dat Huh? Member # 302 posted                       Nichelle Nichols -------------------- Is it Friday yet? Registered: Feb 2000  |  IP: Logged Neutrino 123 Member Member # 1327 posted                       Well, exploration in space is a large part of the 'spirit' of Star Trek. You may be interested in the NASA project at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/ Unfortunatly, the funding was cut to this project by a bunch of idiots. -------------------- Neutrino 123 (pronounced Neutrino One-Two-Three) Registered: May 2004  |  IP: Logged Sol System two dollar pistol Member # 30 posted                       Lots of people who are into science fiction go on to be scientists. (Not most, surely, but a sizable fraction.) Lots of people who are into science fiction are or were at one time into Star Trek. (The same applies.) So you've got people working on real spacecraft that are fond of particular fake spacecraft. But there's not much more than that going on. (I mean, OK, aside from the naming of the first shuttle, but that wasn't NASA's idea.) Star Trek isn't responsible for Cassini or anything. And, OK, yeah, Nichelle Nichols did some recruiting for them. I mean, it's neat and everything, but you've probably got as many Asimov fans at NASA as you do Star Trek ones. Or what have you. Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Sol System two dollar pistol Member # 30 posted                       Oh, and: "the on going mission to Mars"? Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Lee I'm a spy now. Spies are cool. Member # 393 posted                       Well, there must be one! The President said there was! -------------------- Never mind the Phlox - Here's the Phase Pistols Registered: Jul 2000  |  IP: Logged Bond, James Bond Member Member # 1127 posted                       The first shuttle was named Enterprise because of Star Trek fans organizing a massive letter writing campaign to NASA. -------------------- "You must talk to him; tell him that he is a good cat, and a pretty cat, and..." -- Data "I will feed him" -- Worf (Phantasms) Registered: Sep 2003  |  IP: Logged Gvsualan Perpetual Member Member # 968 posted                       Really. That is the first I have heard of this. Tell us more. -------------------- Hey, it only took 13 years for me to figure out my password... Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Bond, James Bond Member Member # 1127 posted                       Hey, he asked. -------------------- "You must talk to him; tell him that he is a good cat, and a pretty cat, and..." -- Data "I will feed him" -- Worf (Phantasms) Registered: Sep 2003  |  IP: Logged Dat Huh? Member # 302 posted                       Ya know, even though NASA wanted to name Enterprise as Constitution instead, there was nothing stopping them from naming a later shuttle with that name. It would have been nice having an Enterprise class shuttle Constitution. -------------------- Is it Friday yet? Registered: Feb 2000  |  IP: Logged Bond, James Bond Member Member # 1127 posted                       I agree. That certainly would have been better then Atlantis. -------------------- "You must talk to him; tell him that he is a good cat, and a pretty cat, and..." -- Data "I will feed him" -- Worf (Phantasms) Registered: Sep 2003  |  IP: Logged bX Stopped. Smelling flowers. Member # 419 posted                       And it would have made people think of that movie with Duchovney. Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged Bond, James Bond Member Member # 1127 posted                       Woops sorry, I edited that. Didn't want to post any extraneous information. -------------------- "You must talk to him; tell him that he is a good cat, and a pretty cat, and..." -- Data "I will feed him" -- Worf (Phantasms) Registered: Sep 2003  |  IP: Logged Omega Some other beginning's end Member # 91 posted                       And it would have made people think of that movie with Duchovney. You mean "Connie and Carla"? -------------------- "This is why you people think I'm so unknowable. You don't listen!" - God, "God, the Devil and Bob" Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Irishman Active Member Member # 1188 posted                       Well, you know, I'd be interested in knowing which came first, the X-33 Venturestar or the Venus class from the Spaceflight Chronology. I don't know the publishing date on the Chronology. -------------------- This is just fun...it's not life...keep this in mind and we'll all enjoy it much more Registered: Dec 2003  |  IP: Logged

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