Re: Reprints of Classic Early Space Fiction


Pat Flannery wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:

The MPLMs were not an ESA project. They were done by ASI, under a
bilateral Italy-US deal. The Italians appear to have a sense of humor,
unlike certain other space agencies.

ESA tends to be more conservative and boring. I suspect the prosaic
explanation for Rosetta is correct.


Still, that's a mighty coincidental name for a comet probe.
Now if they'd named it Ben Zoof... ;-)

Pat

I think the only hitch is that the probe was named "Rosetta", not
"Rosette"....

R

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