Re: new apollo archive

From: Derek Lyons (fairwater_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:32:35 GMT

Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

>Anyway, though it's not the Moon, there are a couple of others of
>planetary sites given designations; the Pathfinder lander was renamed
>the Sagan Memorial Station, and Viking 1 the Mutch Memorial Station.
>
>(The NASM has a plaque for the latter; it's on display next to their
>engineering spare until it gets placed in situ)
>
>It's cheering to see sites named because of some interaction with the
>place, some specific knowledge set, not just through geography.

It's less cheering to think though that the names are selected by
bureaucratic comittee rather than by local usage.

D. 

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