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Title: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 25, 2019, 09:14:12 AM: Looking for (semi) serious suggestions for space exploration projects.

E.g., Apollo, Mariner, Voyager, Gemini, etc.

Even smart-ass (e.g. mirth) replies welcome. :)
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2019, 09:43:49 AM: Sisyphus
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 09:57:06 AM: Quote from: BanzaiCat on March 25, 2019, 09:14:12 AM
Even smart-ass (e.g. mirth) replies welcome. :)

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Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bob48 on March 25, 2019, 10:02:09 AM: Prometheus!

Oh not, its been done, innit ;)
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Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 10:05:18 AM: Meeple
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Post by: bbmike on March 25, 2019, 11:06:43 AM: Searchicola
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Post by: Sir Slash on March 25, 2019, 11:20:51 AM: Uran.... No, I won't go there. How about, "Space-a-topia"? :oh: On a slightly more serious note. Project Magellan?
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Post by: bob48 on March 25, 2019, 11:23:51 AM: Triumvirate.

No particular reason - I just like the word is all :D
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 11:24:48 AM: Quote from: bbmike on March 25, 2019, 11:06:43 AM
Searchicola
AgricoTrek
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Barthheart on March 25, 2019, 12:09:21 PM: Quote from: mirth on March 25, 2019, 11:24:48 AM
Quote from: bbmike on March 25, 2019, 11:06:43 AM
Searchicola
AgricoTrek

:ROFL:
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Barthheart on March 25, 2019, 12:11:45 PM: Final Frontier

Search for Spock

Lost in Space

Basilisk Station

Galaxy Quest
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bob48 on March 25, 2019, 12:36:25 PM: They sound familiar.
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Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 01:06:02 PM: Quote from: Barthheart on March 25, 2019, 12:11:45 PM
Final Frontier

Search for Spock

Lost in Space

Basilisk Station

Galaxy Quest

Firefly
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Sir Slash on March 25, 2019, 02:38:05 PM: "Horta Hoe-Down".
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: besilarius on March 25, 2019, 06:55:12 PM: In no order:
de Gama
Prince Henry
Cook,
Endeavor
Beagle
Maury
Anson
Ballard
Erebus
terror
Armstrong
La Salle
Cousteau
Brendan
Heyerdahl
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 07:15:13 PM: No Shackleton? Shameful.
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 25, 2019, 07:58:50 PM: No Donner either
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 25, 2019, 08:01:15 PM: I have to admit, there's more serious suggestions here than I expected.

Thank you, AD Community. :applause:
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Post by: bbmike on March 25, 2019, 09:10:22 PM: We have failed. :(
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Post by: mirth on March 25, 2019, 09:35:39 PM: Quote from: bbmike on March 25, 2019, 09:10:22 PM
We have failed. :(
you have failed
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2019, 09:47:31 PM: N-phwaygeaux
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Staggerwing on March 25, 2019, 10:01:08 PM: Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2019, 09:47:31 PM
N-phwaygeaux

Wasn't that the French physicist who chucked it all to become a street mime? IIRC, his most famous routine involved walking into the wind using the least possible number of steps.
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Sir Slash on March 25, 2019, 11:35:16 PM: No, I think that was Spock's last name. Or first name. Or whichever we never got to hear. Other than, 'Mr.' of course.
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 26, 2019, 06:26:23 AM: Wasn't Spock's first name 'Benjamin'? I hear he was good with kids as well.
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Post by: Sir Slash on March 26, 2019, 10:15:31 AM: Well certainly handled Kirk well enough. ::)
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 26, 2019, 10:21:17 AM: These names, if you're wondering, I'm wanting to use to describe space missions in the GMT game SpaceCorp. I'm going to work on an AAR - this game is a lot of fun and fast-playing.

So, naming a mission Mirth-1 to Uranus, while that has a certain amount of charm, I was looking for more semi-serious suggestions given that this is going to go on the AD Front Page^TM. (Insert incoming jokes on 'front page, what?')
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Post by: bob48 on March 26, 2019, 10:27:21 AM: I did assume that you were looking for 'new' names and not ones already in existence either in fact or fiction?
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 26, 2019, 12:33:43 PM: ^ Correct, sir. Just some ideas.
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Post by: Sir Slash on March 26, 2019, 02:12:26 PM: Well hell, why didn't you say that in the beginning Good Sir? Please feel free to use, 'Mission Slash' to anywhere other than Uranus because some types here about would no doubt make something juvenile out of it. Though, it would be funny. :hehe:
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Post by: bbmike on March 26, 2019, 04:43:21 PM: Speaking of Jackson Roykirk, how about Nomad?
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Post by: mirth on March 26, 2019, 04:47:58 PM: Quote from: bbmike on March 26, 2019, 04:43:21 PM
Speaking of Jackson Roykirk, how about Nomad?

Just go full V-Ger
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bob48 on March 26, 2019, 04:50:23 PM: ........._{spiney Norman}....................

DINSDALE IN SPAAaaaaaaace!
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 26, 2019, 06:57:46 PM: Lemon Curry?
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Post by: bob48 on March 26, 2019, 06:59:50 PM: Obviously.
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Post by: Sir Slash on March 26, 2019, 07:32:14 PM: Don't forget Harry Mudd.
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 26, 2019, 08:15:13 PM: How about using the names of various fictional companies from scifi media such as Weyland-Yutani?

Try this page for some more: https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Fictional_Firms_in_Science_Fiction

You could also combine some current companies into interesting conglomerates such as MaerskBoeingSamsung
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: Sir Slash on March 26, 2019, 11:00:07 PM: How about naming space missions in honor of Russian Cosmonauts that've died in space? That ought to give you plenty of material.
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2019, 06:39:11 AM: Quote from: Sir Slash on March 26, 2019, 07:32:14 PM
Don't forget Harry Mudd.

Harcourt might be a solid choice.
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 27, 2019, 07:50:37 AM: Quote from: Staggerwing on March 26, 2019, 08:15:13 PM
How about using the names of various fictional companies from scifi media such as Weyland-Yutani?

Try this page for some more: https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Fictional_Firms_in_Science_Fiction

You could also combine some current companies into interesting conglomerates such as MaerskBoeingSamsung

That's a great resource, stags - thanks! :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: bbmike on March 27, 2019, 08:05:14 AM: (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/96/e0/2b96e0cf645286ccf2fdc3839ecf9b6b.jpg)
Title: Re: Space Exploration Names
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 27, 2019, 08:06:01 AM: ^ Now, THAT'S just a 'bald'-faced lie!