until you get to Albatross.
Falcon is a real bird type. Dragon can be a mythical "bird" if it has wings.
I don't like roman numerals either. If we could agree to read the roman numerals (i.e. Eye-Ex instead of IX) then we would stop using them in minutes as everyone heard how bizarre it is.Good luck SpaceX.
Star or constellation names (Cygnus, Draco, Hercules, Orion, Pegasus, Taurus, etc.) would seem to offer an abundant set of naming options. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.lst - Ed Kyle
Has this changed, or are you simply making a guess?
Space-X = Space EXploration Technologies Corporation.R.
Quote from: wannamoonbase on 03/04/2009 12:29 pmI don't like roman numerals either. If we could agree to read the roman numerals (i.e. Eye-Ex instead of IX) then we would stop using them in minutes as everyone heard how bizarre it is.Good luck SpaceX.Don't you mean "Space10"?Quote from: edkyle99 on 03/04/2009 05:06 pmStar or constellation names (Cygnus, Draco, Hercules, Orion, Pegasus, Taurus, etc.) would seem to offer an abundant set of naming options. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.lst - Ed KyleExcept Pegasus was named after a Spanish sports car of the 1950's...
Quote from: antonioe on 03/04/2009 05:29 pmQuote from: wannamoonbase on 03/04/2009 12:29 pmI don't like roman numerals either. If we could agree to read the roman numerals (i.e. Eye-Ex instead of IX) then we would stop using them in minutes as everyone heard how bizarre it is.Good luck SpaceX.Don't you mean "Space10"?Quote from: edkyle99 on 03/04/2009 05:06 pmStar or constellation names (Cygnus, Draco, Hercules, Orion, Pegasus, Taurus, etc.) would seem to offer an abundant set of naming options. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.lst - Ed KyleExcept Pegasus was named after a Spanish sports car of the 1950's... Well, there goes my hope of seeing it one day launch a satellite named Bellerophon...
Don't you mean "Space10"?
today I listened to a luncheon speaker from SpaceX stating that F1 number 5 will fly at the end of April and was just shipped to Kwaj.
Antonio doesn't know this, but many years ago, when I foolishly thought it might be worth competing with Pegasus, the internal code name for my conceptual vehicle design was...Bellerophon...the hero who tamed/broke Pegasus. I've loved the name since Forbidden Planet came out.
I came to my senses and realized there was no market.
Quote from: antonioe on 03/04/2009 05:29 pmDon't you mean "Space10"?He was playing off a joke earlier in the thread about the use of Roman numerals. So no, its SpaceX.
Quote from: HMXHMX on 03/05/2009 11:19 pmAntonio doesn't know this, but many years ago, when I foolishly thought it might be worth competing with Pegasus, the internal code name for my conceptual vehicle design was...Bellerophon...the hero who tamed/broke Pegasus. I've loved the name since Forbidden Planet came out.Uhh.. wasn't the Bellerophon destroyed by the invisible monster created from Dr. Morbius' sub-conscious by the Krell machine? Man, you should choose you names more carefully...
Quote from: HMXHMX on 03/05/2009 11:19 pmtoday I listened to a luncheon speaker from SpaceX stating that F1 number 5 will fly at the end of April and was just shipped to Kwaj.Finally, a snippet of actual news concerning flight 5. Thanks, HMXHMX. Did that speaker by any chance mention anything F9-related?
Re: The thread title. It is "Falcon 1", not "Falcon I", per SpaceX.And "Launch V"? SpaceX identified the most recent launch "Flight 4". Common usage of Roman numerals ended in the 15th Century, after the fall of Constantinople! - Ed Kyle