Comments on: Star Trek Inspires New NASA Mission Poster + Shuttle Enterprise To Fly Again

By: GDI

GDI — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:51:42 +0000

I remember the test flights of Enterprise and was astounded each time! I was disappointed that they never upgraded her to space flight capable, but I understood why as the cost to do so would have been tremendous.

However, it would have been romantic to have a space ship named “Enterprise”!

By: David Scrimpshire

David Scrimpshire — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:23:33 +0000

BTW … pants sure did fit funny back then ….

By: David Scrimpshire

David Scrimpshire — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:22:08 +0000

Naw .. the non-flying shuttle should have been the Constitution :)

New Trek show should be co-run by JJ and Manny Coto, along with some of the other production team from 24. I think that would rock!

By: Thorny

Thorny — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:47:11 +0000

77…

Well, there will be a woman (Shannon Walker) on the Space Station when they get there, at least if the current schedule holds (there is talk of a big delay for this launch due to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer being behind schedue.)

NASA did flirt with the idea of an all-woman crew in the early 2000s. It would probably have had Pam Melroy in command and Susan Still as Pilot. The idea was abandoned after the 2003 Columbia accident. It isn’t possible now because no female pilot-astronauts are still in the astronaut corps.

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Well, it’s a damn sight finer poster than that awful TNG one on this site a year or so ago! ;)

By: C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:33:39 +0000

It is a shame that Bolshevism’s lasting contribution to the West will be the disastrous affect of the unrecognized-but-lethally-effective pseudo-science, Lysenkoism.

Sincerely,
C.S. Lewis

14. MikeTen – March 17, 2010

It’s funny, but the Trek banner has a Asian male, an African woman, a Russian male, A Scot male, two american males, and a vulcan male.

The NASA banner has all white (American?) males. Couldn’t they at least put a woman astronaut on the flight for a little diversity? Or even an all women crew? It would have been nice to see that before the shuttle retires.

By: ryanhuyton

ryanhuyton — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:03:02 +0000

#73 Time travel. And in an alternate timeline, the shuttle Enterprise actually went into space. :-)

By: BringBackTheShat

BringBackTheShat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:08:31 +0000

Was William Shatner there that day?

By: BringBackTheShat

BringBackTheShat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:01:04 +0000

I was 13 years old at the time and was one of those who wrote to the President and NASA lobbying for the shuttle to be named Enterprise in honor of Star Trek. Neat memory.

By: Joey-jo-jo

Joey-jo-jo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:20:39 +0000

Hey, how did John Lock and Benjamin Linus get in that picture!!