The lighter side of Flight International
Moon monikers
NASA famously named its Space Shuttle test orbiter ‘Enterprise’ in honour of the television show Star Trek, so surely there’s an opportunity for a similar homage via the Artemis programme to return to the Moon?
Fans of the science-fiction series
Space: 1999 will recall the exploits of castaways on a lunar outpost after the Moon is blasted out of orbit by a far-side nuclear explosion – although best you don’t think too hard about the Newtonian physics of that – which featured rocket craft called ‘Eagles’, echoing the Eagle lander that took Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon’s surface.