Re: new apollo archive

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:15:49 -0500

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:17:01 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
<herb.schaltegger@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

>In article <41099B9D.BAC745E6@bigpond.net.au>,
> David Sander <surfren@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>> and it's possible there's a parallel
>> between this and Bill Shepherd's [in]famous 'declaration' when he
>> arrived on ISS as Expedition One, calling ISS "Alpha".
>
>Perhaps. Interesting to note, though, that right at the end of Space
>Station Freedom in the summer of 1993, the first official designation of
>the US/European/Japanese + Russian station configuration was "Space
>Station Alpha," a designation universally panned among contractor
>personnel and our NASA counterparts. The only people who liked the
>moniker were Dan Goldin and his HQ lackeys.

...And for some reason the Expedition One crew, and a lot of Gerry
Anderson fans.

                                OM 

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