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Title: What do you think the name of Cygnus NG-13 is going to be?
Post by: ethan2226 on 10/29/2019 01:21 am

Cygnus vehicles are named after a deceased NASA person (usually astronauts). What name would you like NG-13 to have. I think NG-13 will be named S.S. Sally Ride, named after the first American woman in space who died in 2012.

Title: Re: What do you think the name of Cygnus NG-13 is going to be?
Post by: ZachS09 on 10/29/2019 02:17 am

I would guess SS Rick Searfoss. He flew three Shuttle flights and worked in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory before his first flight.

After retiring from NASA, Searfoss served as a judge for the Ansari X-Prize and declared SpaceShipOne as the winner following the spaceplane's two competitive flights.

[zubenelgenubi: Christened Robert H. Lawrence]