Ship Names: Ship Lore: Shipping Issues

Thread on known SF names but also ideas for naming new ships and how cultures might go about it and also anything useful from sci-fi or real life... including history and lore.<div> </div><div>The Flying Dutchman story must have a Spacer version for instance.</div><div> </div><div>Or what are the customs surrounding ship naming?</div><div> </div><div>Or how come those Chinese ship names translate funny in RL and could that happen in SF: </div><div> </div><div>{http://www.jiawen.net/Chinesenames.html#NamesForShips}</div><div> </div><div>This is a thread to get us thinking... ships probably have a Pan-Galactic Name but also have a port/culture of origin name like you see on Chinese Ships (with both Asain Characters and the English Name) that has been translated into Pan-Galactic. So unless the builder/owner intended the ship to have the Pan-Galactic Name only a ship might have 2 names in 2 different alphabets, and the Pan-Galactic might translate funny.</div><div> </div><div>Also some names might be traditional like Humans might have a good luck name like "Molly Brown" that no one can explain but it's traditional. Maybe the humans no longer know what a "Molly" is or what "Brown" means but it is good luck! So there are tons of ships named Molly Brown + a number.</div><div> </div><div>Also you got to figure there are Spacer Rules in the UPF and the Rim and the various governments that might require some thought... a new race even if friendly could end up in a paperwork nightmare if they visit the wrong spacestation... first contact by paperpushers (rule number 1 no one is happy till the paperwork is in order).</div><div> </div><div>Some real life Spacecraft:</div><div> </div><div>

NASA Spacecraft Names:<o:p></o:p>

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Mercury Missions:<o:p></o:p>

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M3: Freedom 7<o:p></o:p>

M4: Liberty Bell 7<o:p></o:p>

M6: Friendship 7<o:p></o:p>

M7: Aurora 7<o:p></o:p>

M8: Sigma 7<o:p></o:p>

M9: Faith 7<o:p></o:p>

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Gemini Missions:<o:p></o:p>

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G3: Molly Brown<o:p></o:p>

G4: American Eagle (Not used)<o:p></o:p>

G5: Lady Bird (Not used)<o:p></o:p>

G6-G12: No Names Allowed<o:p></o:p>

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Apollo Missions:<o:p></o:p>

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A1: No Name<o:p></o:p>

A7: No Name<o:p></o:p>

A8: Columbiad (not used)<o:p></o:p>

A9: Gumdrop (CM) & Spider (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A10: Charlie Brown (CM) & Snoopy (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A11: Columbia (CM) & Eagle (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A12: Yankee Clipper (CM) & Intrepid (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A13: Odyssey (CM) & Aquarius (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A14: Kitty Hawk (CM) & Antares (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A15: Endeavor (CM) & Falcon (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A16: Casper (CM) & Orion (LM)<o:p></o:p>

A17: America (CM) & Challenger (LM)<o:p></o:p>

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Skylab<o:p></o:p>

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Space Shuttles:<o:p></o:p>

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Inspiration (Mock Up)<o:p></o:p>

Pathfinder (Trainer)<o:p></o:p>

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Enterprise<o:p></o:p>

Constitution (Columbia’s originally proposed name)<o:p></o:p>

Atlantis<o:p></o:p>

Challenger<o:p></o:p>

Columbia<o:p></o:p>

Discovery<o:p></o:p>

Endeavor<o:p></o:p>

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Other American Spacecraft: Virgin Galactic<o:p></o:p>

SpaceShipOne and White Knight<o:p></o:p>

SpaceShipTwo and White Knight Two<o:p></o:p>

SpaceShipThree<o:p></o:p>

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Soviet:<o:p></o:p>

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Buran Spacecraft:<o:p></o:p>

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Buran (Snowstorm or Blizzard)<o:p></o:p>

Burya (Tempest)<o:p></o:p>

Ptichka (Little Bird)<o:p></o:p>

Baikal<o:p></o:p>

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Soyuz Program: (Union)<o:p></o:p>

Vostok Program: (Orient or East)<o:p></o:p>

Voskhod Program: (Ascent or Dawn)<o:p></o:p>

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Spacestation:<o:p></o:p>

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Almaz (Diamond)<o:p></o:p>

Mir (Peace or World)<o:p></o:p>

Salyut (Salute or Fireworks)<o:p></o:p>

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