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Endevour would be a more likely choice. Columbia and Discovery would be a little to soon...
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Did something happen to the Discovery while I wasn't looking?
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I'm predicting that we don't see it until at least the fourth season and we don't hear a word about it until the resolution to the "Xindi saga" --- that just sounds stupid.
I would say those continual names that have been forever thrown around will be in the running but higher contenders would be Columbia and Jefferies--- perhaps even crazily enough the Roddenberry might be a possibility, no other high profile ship that I can think of since his death.
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quote:Originally posted by TheWoozle: Endevour would be a more likely choice. Columbia and Discovery would be a little to soon...
uh.. er... Challenger. Okay, I guess enough time's passed to forget.. humph.
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"Cochrane".
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But they already honored the shuttle Challenger with a starship with this name NCC-71099, Galaxy-class, in the Voyager episode "Timeless." Because it is the latest manned spacecraft loss, I bet that the NX-02 will be named Columbia, in honor of those who perished. I was just joking before about the name Yorktown.
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Agreed, Kazeite.
Then NX-03 Challenger NX-04 Atlantis NX-05 Endeavour NX-06 Buran
BTW - NASA is short one shuttle now - why don't they just buy Buran and give it a make-over - it could be done on Ricki Lake!
I suspect they could do up Enterprise as a resque ship. It's smaller and heavier then the rest of the fleet, so it probably wouldn't be of much use for research or as a lifting body.
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It would be cheaper and cause less effort expended to purchase a new Space Shuttle than to retrofit any of the existing non-space faring orbiters.
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I'm worried now, because either Kosh is making the sort of appalling spelling mistake that someone his age really shouldn't, or "resque" is a word that I should know, but don't.
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Oops - my bad - forgetting Discovery! I knew I was missing one - but I couldn't be arsed checking the web
Enterprise as a Rescue ship - hmmm!
What about just as a people mover?
Why doesn't Russia just fix the Buran and have their own cash-cow for putting LARGE loads in orbit - I mean it can hold more than the US shuttles.
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