Boeing names its CST-100 manned capsule Starliner
The competition heats up: Boeing today unveiled “Starliner” as the new name for its CST-100 manned capsule.
This intensifies the competition because the new name is something the public can grab and identify. As long as Boeing was using the boring acronym they were holding back to stay in the boring do-nothing pork-laden government-funded NASA environment. Grabbing the public means they want the public to buy this product.
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The competition heats up: Boeing today unveiled “Starliner” as the new name for its CST-100 manned capsule.
This intensifies the competition because the new name is something the public can grab and identify. As long as Boeing was using the boring acronym they were holding back to stay in the boring do-nothing pork-laden government-funded NASA environment. Grabbing the public means they want the public to buy this product.
Posted from Spokane, Washington.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I liked CST 100 better.
Welcome to Spokane. You missed the smoke. You missed the dust. You missed the awesome late summer weather. But you made it in time for rain :)
Have fun at Pig Out in the Park
I agree, the name “Starliner” evokes thoughts of the Pan-Am ship in 2001 A Space Odyssey.
The CST 100 is a capsule, a nice capsule to be sure, but it’s not a sleek craft that speeds large numbers of passengers in comfort to faraway destinations…..
And BTW, where is the AT&T picture phone I was promised? :-)
Gee, all it makes me think of is a 1950’s Ford that burns oil and has electrical problems…
Silly name
The Pan Am ship from the movie was named the Orion III, as is the capsule for the SLS (Stupid Launch System).
Like Pan Am, AT&T is essentially gone, but at least you’ve got the picture phone, just not from low Earth orbit!