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#960
by
Endeavour_01
on 02 Sep, 2015 21:37
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Uhhh....whhhaaattt? 
Boeing Defense @BoeingDefense
#StayTuned as #Boeing's #CST100 gets its official name on Friday.
This could be as horrendous as the plans to rename SLS into "The Inspiration Rocket" or some such twitter-friendly nonsense.
Wait who wants to name SLS "The Inspiration Rocket"?
On CST-100 getting a name: As Chris says this could be really bad or it could be really good. My bet is they will either name it after a constellation or name it something patriotic (Liberty, Eagle, ect.)
After what happened with Vulcan I don't think they will do something out of the blue like "Galaxy One."
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#961
by
jtrame
on 02 Sep, 2015 22:18
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that Boeing will indeed show the interior of the facility with a few carefully staged shots-- just as I said they should do a couple of weeks ago.
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#962
by
Skyrocket
on 02 Sep, 2015 23:37
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Uhhh....whhhaaattt?
Boeing Defense @BoeingDefense
#StayTuned as #Boeing's #CST100 gets its official name on Friday.
Sigurd, Beowulf or any other of The Dragon Slayers 
St. George
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#963
by
Rocket Science
on 03 Sep, 2015 00:08
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Maybe something like “Freedom” or “Independence” as in from relying on Russia as well as the historical American reference...
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#964
by
Malderi
on 03 Sep, 2015 00:14
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Would love for them just to name it the Boeing 797. They won't do this, because it's a bad idea for a lot of reasons. But sure would emphasize the continuity and history of the Boeing name!
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#965
by
Herb Schaltegger
on 03 Sep, 2015 01:37
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I like the idea of a number system, since it's archetypically "Boeing." However, I don't think it would be anything "near" in the numbering sequence like 797 or even 808. Back when SST's were all the rage (remember the Jet Age, kids?) the Boeing SST was the 2707. I think they'd want to one-up that for an actual honest-to-Bob spaceship. I'm gonna go out on a thin limb and guess something like 3707 with an absurdly-thin corporate PR premise ("It's the third generation of Boeing vehicle - first subsonic airplanes, then supersonic airplanes, now spacecraft.") This would undoubtedly be combined with an equally-lame PR friendly name, "DreamOrbiter" or "SpaceLifter" or some such.
We'll see in a couple of days.
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#966
by
NovaSilisko
on 03 Sep, 2015 02:16
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Maybe something like “Freedom” or “Independence” as in from relying on Russia as well as the historical American reference...
Freedom Eagle 1000?
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#967
by
billh
on 03 Sep, 2015 03:11
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CoST-100MM
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#968
by
Sesquipedalian
on 03 Sep, 2015 03:53
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Maybe something like “Freedom” or “Independence” as in from relying on Russia as well as the historical American reference...
Ah yes, the pair of X-71s which successfully defended Earth from that incoming asteroid in 1998. A shining moment in American history.
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#969
by
kkattula
on 03 Sep, 2015 04:32
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"The Shelby CST"
That'll make it much harder to under-fund Commercial Crew, and they can always claim it's an homage to Carroll. :-)
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#970
by
JeffLA
on 03 Sep, 2015 06:45
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Great. At least we know where the extra hundreds of millions of funding compared to Dragon 2 went. On OPF repainting and a twitter-friendly name for an already named spacecraft. I envision Friday's event to be painful, with a tearful Bolden trying to keep to a script, grinning lawmakers, and fat cat Boeing execs checking their stock price, before Bolden rushes off the stage to write that next check to Russia again.
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#971
by
Rocket Science
on 03 Sep, 2015 07:00
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#972
by
woods170
on 03 Sep, 2015 07:14
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#973
by
jacqmans
on 03 Sep, 2015 12:25
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Workers begin mounting a wraparound mural on the front of the former Orbiter Processing Facility-3 as Boeing converts the facility for use in its Commercial Space Transportation-100 program known as the CST-100.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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#974
by
randomly
on 03 Sep, 2015 13:35
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In the spirit of marketing I'd go with
'But Wait! There's More!...'
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#975
by
Jim
on 03 Sep, 2015 13:45
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Great. At least we know where the extra hundreds of millions of funding compared to Dragon 2 went. On OPF repainting and a twitter-friendly name for an already named spacecraft. I envision Friday's event to be painful, with a tearful Bolden trying to keep to a script, grinning lawmakers, and fat cat Boeing execs checking their stock price, before Bolden rushes off the stage to write that next check to Russia again.
Nice try at a smear campaign and quite wrong. Space Florida is responsible for OFP-3.
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#976
by
yg1968
on 03 Sep, 2015 16:49
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I have a name for the CST-100: Orion lite.
It is sure to confuse everyone again...
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#977
by
Rocket Science
on 03 Sep, 2015 17:16
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I have a name for the CST-100: Orion lite.
It is sure to confuse everyone again...
Not at all yg, I called it that a couple of years back myself!
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#978
by
a_langwich
on 03 Sep, 2015 18:08
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I have a name for the CST-100: Orion lite.
It is sure to confuse everyone again...
How about the Boeing Wells Fargo GE Apple WalMart Verizon Microsoft USA Phoenix? "I'd like to thank our sponsors..."
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#979
by
woods170
on 03 Sep, 2015 18:55
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I have a name for the CST-100: Orion lite.
It is sure to confuse everyone again...
Not at all yg, I called it that a couple of years back myself!
Sounds familiar. A NRM guy earlier this year gave a presentation on the state of affairs of the USA HSF program and used the exact same two words to describe CST-100.
Man I‘ve got to find my copy of Armageddon that’s still sealed and unviewed since purchase. Is that what the Shuttles were called? I only saw it the one time in the theatre back then... 
Man I‘ve got to find my copy of Armageddon that’s still sealed and unviewed since purchase. Is that what the Shuttles were called? I only saw it the one time in the theatre back then...