PA>    1960s: Star Trek. After several other suggestions are rejected, the 
PA> starship is named "Enterprise".
Along with the suggestions as listed in the book, the Making Of Star Trek
by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.
PA>    1970s: NASA goes looking for a name for its space shuttle, and is 
PA> flooded with letters suggesting that it be named "Enterprise" in honour 
PA> of the starship.
400,000, I hardly call a flood, they got 3 times that many for the Endeavor 
contest.
PA>    1980s: Star Trek TNG. In one of the rooms on the Enterprise-D, there 
PA> is a display showing models of the past Enterprises. As well as the E-C, 
PA> E-B, E-A, and E-original starships, there is a model of the space shuttle 
PA> Enterprise,
PA> implying that in the Star Trek universe the starship was named in honour 
PA> of the space shuttle.
You forgot to mention the sailing ship, and the 2 aircraft carriers, so you'r 
'implication is shot down.
The shuttle is merely part of the liniage, there is no way the original could 
have been named after the shuttle, as that program did not begin until after 
1970. And the naming did not occure until 1978 or 79.
Pete
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