Sep 14, 2022 05:43 AM
(This post was last modified: Sep 14, 2022 05:48 AM by C C.)
https://www.iflscience.com/who-thought-a...idea-65285
EXCERPTS: . . . . The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is a project that NASA hopes will be launched sometime in the early 2030s [...] a number of people took the [name] question to mean that NASA itself was asking ... but no trace of such a scheme is to be found on any official NASA sites...
Some of the publishable naming suggestions received have been shared by Ice Giant Missions.
To be fair, some were quite creative and made good use of NASA's love of acronyms and backronyms: A.N.U.S (Advanced New Uranus Space mission), and R.E.C.T.U.M (Research Education Charging Towards Uranus Mission) for example.
Some were more obvious: Operation Butt Plug, Pegassus, Seymore Butts and Suppository. Proby McProbeface of course made an entrance on the list.
Thankfully for the poor Uranus probe just begging to be taken seriously, there were actual suggestions that are more befitting of the Uranus explorer. Some of our favorites include Odin, who was the Norse god that led Asgard to defeat the Frost Giants, and Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind and bringer of winter... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: . . . . The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is a project that NASA hopes will be launched sometime in the early 2030s [...] a number of people took the [name] question to mean that NASA itself was asking ... but no trace of such a scheme is to be found on any official NASA sites...
Some of the publishable naming suggestions received have been shared by Ice Giant Missions.
To be fair, some were quite creative and made good use of NASA's love of acronyms and backronyms: A.N.U.S (Advanced New Uranus Space mission), and R.E.C.T.U.M (Research Education Charging Towards Uranus Mission) for example.
Some were more obvious: Operation Butt Plug, Pegassus, Seymore Butts and Suppository. Proby McProbeface of course made an entrance on the list.
Thankfully for the poor Uranus probe just begging to be taken seriously, there were actual suggestions that are more befitting of the Uranus explorer. Some of our favorites include Odin, who was the Norse god that led Asgard to defeat the Frost Giants, and Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind and bringer of winter... (MORE - missing details)
