|-----------------|Peter Lutz wrote:
PL>PA>    1960s: Star Trek. After several other suggestions are rejected, the
PL>PA> starship is named "Enterprise".
PL>Along with the suggestions as listed in the book, the Making Of Star Trek
PL>by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.
PL>
PL>PA>    1970s: NASA goes looking for a name for its space shuttle, and is
PL>PA> flooded with letters suggesting that it be named "Enterprise" in honou
PL>PA> of the starship.
PL>400,000, I hardly call a flood, they got 3 times that many
PL>for the Endeavor contest.
PL>
PL>PA>    1980s: Star Trek TNG. In one of the rooms on the Enterprise-D, ther
PL>PA> is a display showing models of the past Enterprises. As well as the E-
PL>PA> E-B, E-A, and E-original starships, there is a model of the space shut
PL>PA> Enterprise,
PL>PA> implying that in the Star Trek universe the starship was named in hono
PL>PA> of the space shuttle.
PL>You forgot to mention the sailing ship, and the 2 aircraft
PL>carriers, so you'r 'implication is shot down.
PL>The shuttle is merely part of the liniage, there is no way
PL>the original could have been named after the shuttle, as
PL>that program did not begin until after 1970. And the naming
PL>did not occure until 1978 or 79.
PL>
PL>Pete
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Actually, he is'nt trying to say that the Eeterprise (NCC-1701) as part of
the TV show was named for  the Space Shuttle. What he is getting at is
looking at it in the Trek Universe.  The USS Enterprise,NCC-1701, was named
for an old (our time) early Earth Spacecraft.
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