Should we name future spacecraft after sci fi ships?

[Docbrown777]

In the future should the government start naming ships after science fiction ships? There are a bunch to choose from thus far.

Enterprise (obviously)
Millenium Falcon
Galactica
etc?

I started thinking about this based on the recent aircraft carrier naming threads. NASA(or some future world space agency) needs to have a naming guide. What better then a list of some of the most notable fictional ships humans have written about?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That brings up one point...

The real aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) is due to be decommissioned in a few years. I would hope that the Navy would have a replacement vessel waiting. We should always have a ship named Enterprise in the fleet...

 

[Brent]

Well, we tried to get the new node named after Serenity (or Colbert lol), but NASA decided to ignore their own poll and just name the node what they wanted. Therefore, I doubt they'll be up for that. Perhaps we should be contacting the ESA to do it.

 

[Hitman]

Human history is filled with cool names. There's no need to go to sci-fi literature for this.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ And no need not to.

Since a lot of fictional spaceships were named after real ships (Enterprise, Discovery et cetera), or took their names from sources that future ships are likely to use (Grissom, Leonov et cetera), or took their names from fictional characters (Snoopy, Caspar et cetera), it's likely that future spaceships will be named after fictional spaceships. Additionally, the Spaceguard Survey Report was named after a fictional organization in ACC's Rendezvous With Rama, so there is plenty of precedent for life imitating Art.

 

[Mallory]

I'm not going to be happy until there's a C-57D in active service.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Any future Moon or Mars mission is begging to have its command and landing craft named Wallace and Gromit. It is inevitable.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Don't we already do that to an extent?

I, personally, would love to see a space shuttle named Wanda...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I, personally, would love to see a space shuttle named Wanda...

Nah, that sounds a bit fishy to me.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

We should call the next space shuttle the Space Battleship Yamato.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I, personally, would love to see a space shuttle named Wanda...

And if it spins out into a rogue orbit or ends up getting stolen, can we say it's gone for a bit of a Wanda?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I, personally, would love to see a space shuttle named Wanda...

And if it spins out into a rogue orbit or ends up getting stolen, can we say it's gone for a bit of a Wanda?

Hey! My gratuitous Wanda joke was funnier!

Oh well. We might as well all take a turn at it. Doesn't mean we're losers or anything. I mean, not all who Wanda are lost....

 

[Crewman47]

Where is the Space Shuttle Enterprise anyway? Isn't it a well known fact that it was so named to honour Star Trek but yet they never sent it into Space? Is it still sitting somewhere collecting dust and can't it be configured to take one flight into orbit?

 

[Mallory]

It was a test article and is now located at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. NASA made design changes after it was built and it was deemed too expensive to refit the Enterprise with those changes.

 

[B.J.]

I'm not going to be happy until there's a C-57D in active service.

Well, not *currently* active, but there was one C-57D built!

 

[T J]

Well, we tried to get the new node named after Serenity (or Colbert lol), but NASA decided to ignore their own poll and just name the node what they wanted. Therefore, I doubt they'll be up for that. Perhaps we should be contacting the ESA to do it.

And what's up with that anyways?! Like we aren't good enough to name our own stuff, they should have used Serenity at least. They took the time to ask us, instead they just wasted our time and dreams.

 

[Smiley]

We could name our spacecraft after anything. I'd like to see as much creativity go into those names as people put into their fishing boats.

 

[miraclefan]

Sure, why the HELL not?

 

[Rii]

I'd like to see as much creativity go into those names as people put into their fishing boats.

Fishing boats aren't usually named by government committees.