Thursday, 17 September 2009

next step 'one small step' in klingon?

On 17 September 1976, a mere four years after the decision was made to develop a low cost reusable space shuttle system, NASA's first orbiter spacecraft was rolled out.

This was a test vehicle not itself built for space flight, and had had the working name Constitution - but during development there was an orchestrated write-in campaign by trekkies so that the spacecraft actually rolled out under the name Enterprise.

A worthy tribute to the continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, even though as an orbiter of course, there would only ever be this world.

But perhaps this one's strange enough.

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