NASA crew officially rename space X Dragon Capsule - Endeavour

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Endeavour docks with ISIS.

I wonder what Capt Cook would think.

]May 30, 2020
— The first NASA astronauts to launch from the U.S. since the end of the space shuttle program have named their commercial spacecraft after one of the retired winged orbiters.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken revealed the name of their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule during a live broadcast from Earth orbit, about three hours after they lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday (May 30).

"I know most of you, at SpaceX especially, know it as 'Capsule 206,' but I think all of us thought that maybe we could do a little bit better than that," Hurley said, in part addressing the team in SpaceX's mission control at the company's spacecraft and rocket assembly facility in Hawthorne, California. "So without further ado, we would like to welcome you aboard capsule 'Endeavour.'"

Hurley said there were a couple of reasons why he and Behnken chose the name.

"One, because of this incredible endeavor [that] NASA, SpaceX and the United States has been on since the end of the space shuttle program back in 2011," he said, referencing the space agency's commercial crew program that led up to their orbital launch, the first in nine years from a U.S. launchpad and the first-ever by a commercial company.

"The other reason we named it 'Endeavour' is a little more personal for Bob and I. We both had our first flights on shuttle Endeavour, and it just meant so much to us to carry on that name. So that is what we decided to go with," he said.

Hurley's first launch was as the pilot of the shuttle Endeavour's 23rd mission, STS-127 in 2009. Behnken preceded him aboard orbiter by two flights, launching as an STS-123 mission specialist the year earlier.

Behnken flew again on Endeavour on STS-130, the orbiter's penultimate mission, in 2010. Hurley also flew a second time on the space shuttle, but aboard Atlantis, as the pilot of the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135 in 2011.
 
Btw the endeavour space shuttle was named after Cook’s ship.

The space agency's newest orbiter began flight operations in 1992 on mission STS-49, the Intelsat VI repair mission. Endeavour is named after the first ship commanded by 18th century British explorer James Cook.

not bad for a small coal carrying ship from Whitby eh
 
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