The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

However, Wally Schirra had been prevented from naming his Apollo 7 spacecraft Phoenix in honor of Grissom's Apollo 1 crew since it was believed the average taxpayer would not take a " fire " metaphor as intended.

Over the course of 10 years the military organization U. N. Spacy reverse-engineers its technology and rebuilds the spacecraft, naming it the SDF-1 Macross.

Since McDivitt and White were prohibited from naming their spacecraft, they decided to put the American flag on their suits, the first astronauts to do so, although Soviet crews wore the Cyrillic " СССР " on their spacesuit helmets.

* " Virgin Space Ship " used by Virgin Galactic for naming their spacecraft ( VSS Enterprise, VSS Voyager )

In contrast to the naming conventions applied by the Soviet Union and now Russia, most American space flights, with the exception of those of Project Gemini and early Apollo flights, have had their spacecraft officially named.

Development resumed in May, referred to by the code-name Dottie, referring to the earlier Dot-Base naming.

In 1967, the quartet was appointed to be Leverhulme Scholars at Keele University, and in 1970, it changed its name from the Cropper to the Lindsay String Quartet, naming itself after Lord Lindsay, the founder of Keele University.

The name was changed to Trocaire College in 1967, with the new naming coming from the Irish word for " mercy.

He described himself in The Times in 1967 as " one whose sole contribution to world thought has been the naming and description of the form of behaviour now known as gamesmanship ".

The Valiant VE was embraced by the Australian motoring press with Wheels magazine naming it Car of the Year for 1967.

Santos " Sandy " Alomar, Sr., or in the Spanish naming system Santos Alomar Conde (; ; born October 19, 1943 in Salinas, Puerto Rico ) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves ( 1964 – 66 ), New York Mets ( 1967 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1967 – 69 ), California Angels ( 1969 – 74 ), New York Yankees ( 1974 – 76 ), and Texas Rangers ( 1977 – 78 ).

Other known NART results include a 3rd place in the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, backing up two works 330P4 in Ferrari's famous triple success, which was commemorated by the naming of the 365 GTB4 " Daytona ".

He served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1965, Lord-Lieutenant of Angus ( 1967 – 1989 ) and Chancellor of the University of Dundee ( 1977 – 1992 ), with the institution naming a significant building after him in September 2008.

Smith then returned to the Yankees, serving as a " super scout " from 1960 – 1966, until the Detroit Tigers called him back into harness, naming him their manager for 1967.

Eleazar Wheelock, a Presbyterian minister, founded the school in 1769, naming it after the second earl of Dartmouth, its sponsor and benefactor.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

When he built his first steel plant, he made a point of naming it after Thomson.

This follows the Star Trek tradition of naming Shuttlecraft after prominent scientists, and particularly in The Next Generation, physicists.

The University of Worcester has acknowledged Housman's local connection by naming a new building after him.

Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

" This tradition ended on berkelium, though, as the naming of the next discovered actinide, californium, was not related to its lanthanide analogue dysprosium, but after the discovery place.

Before that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries: his father was named Ingemarsson after his father Ingemar Bengtsson.

A street called Beattytown was built in Galway, Ireland in the 1920s by the Irish Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Land Trust and named after Admiral Beatty, following their policy of naming streets after notable commanders of the British Empire.

These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary.

Vancouver was the first European to enter Burrard Inlet on 13 June 1792, naming it after his friend Sir Harry Burrard.

In 2002, naming rights were purchased by Houston-based Minute Maid, after Enron went bankrupt.

The naming of a region and its principal town after the main river is a common feature in this part of the world — compare the adjoining districts / rivers / towns of Arachosia and Bactria.

* 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

In the morning, Jacob awakened and continued on his way to Haran, after naming the place where he had spent the night " Bethel ", " God's house ".

The dispute on the priority of the discovery occurred shortly after, with Urbain and von Welsbach accusing each other of publishing results influenced by the published research of the other ; the naming honor went to Urbain as he published his results earlier.

Griffith was determined not to alienate fans in either city by naming the team after one city or the other, so his desire was to name the team the " Twin Cities Twins ", however MLB objected.

The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.

Since 2011, this meeting has been known as the " MetLife Bowl ", after the naming sponsor of the teams ' stadium.

Cope's paper naming his ' Ornithochirus species was published in 1872, just five days after Marsh's paper.

The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington D. C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, incredulous that Bachman and King were not one and the same, located publisher's records at the Library of Congress and discovered a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels.

The team considered naming PNC Park after Clemente, but despite popular sentiment the team chose instead to sell the naming rights to locally-based PNC Financial Services, with the bridge being renamed after him considered a compromise.

The theatre was founded in 1818 by James King and Daniel Dunn ( formerly managers of the Surrey Theatre in Bermondsey ), and John Thomas Serres, then Marine painter to the King who managed to secure the formal patronage of Princess Charlotte and her husband Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg naming the theatre the Royal Coburg Theatre.

This was in response to the common practice of naming a limited-liability entity as a 1 % general partner that controlled the limited partnership and organizing the managers as limited partners.

Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming for various forms of water and related substances in several European languages, that might have been originally associated with colors found in swamps.

Company founder Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic, found that naming the furniture with proper names and words, rather than a product code, made the names easier to remember.

Some researchers such as John A Lucy, Barbara Saunders and Stephen C Levinson have argued that Berlin and Kay's study does not in fact show that linguistic relativity in color naming is impossible, because of a number of basic unsupported assumptions in their study ( such as whether all cultures in fact have a category of " color " that can be unproblematically defined and equated with the one found in Indo-European languages ) and because of problems with their data stemming from those basic assumptions.

By his naming the blade " Sting " we see Bilbo's acceptance of the kinds of cultural and linguistic practices found in Beowulf, signifying his entrance into the ancient world in which he found himself.

He encouraged those who disliked the lack of religious freedom in England to join the Massachusetts Bay Company, and later helped to found the city of Boston, Massachusetts ( 1630 ) which he was instrumental in naming.

) Some suggest that as Marduk was a war god, the expression " of Marduk " may simply denote a warrior-the popular translation of " warrior " is commonly found in naming dictionaries.

The lock of hair was found in a coffinette bearing an inscription naming Queen Tiye.

Legend has it that when the Peruvian government decided to colonise the area ( in order to prevent the Colombian government from claiming it first ), they found a cross inscribed with the words " San Antonio ", naming the new town after this cross.

To be able to use his initials in naming any new genes he found, he studied dominant temperature-sensitive phenotypes ( DTS ).

:“ ... our men had each of them three cups of wine in signe of ioy for our good hap ... the naming of the Straights of Le Maire, although by good right it should rather have been called Willem Schouten Straight, after our Masters Name, by whose wise conduction and skill in sayling, the same was found .”.

The earliest recorded use of " Missouri " is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a group of Native Americans and a nearby river.

Researchers into municipal naming practices have concluded that the stem ' gran ', found in a series of names nationwide, cannot have its source in the environmental connection to spruce timber.

* SAR11 ( microbiology ), a naming convention for uncultured bacteria first found in the Sargasso Sea

This naming proposal found little favour, and the various types on the market continued to be known by the name of their individual designers or manufacturers, e. g. Rider's, Robinson's, or Heinrici's ( hot ) air engine.

Fuller information on the naming of months will be found below, but it should be noted that the first month of the year was called Frawardin, and the first day of Frawardin was the ' New Year's Day ' or Nawruz ( also reckoned Now-Ruz, Nowruz, No Roz, No-Rooz, Norouz, or Navroz ), from which all other religious observances were reckoned-this day being, in theory, the day of the Northern vernal equinox, 21 March ( Gregorian ).

More about the difficulty in turning an offence into a legal act can be found in Felstiner & Sarat ’ s ( 1981 ) study, which describes three steps a victim ( of any dispute ) must go through before turning to the justice system: naming – giving the assault a definition, blaming – understanding who is responsible for the violation of rights and facing them, and finally, claiming – turning to the authorities.

This victory by Johnson, which would be used in naming the new record company the Victor Talking Machine Company he would found the following year, may have been in part due to a patent-pooling handshake agreement with Columbia that allowed the latter to begin producing flat records themselves, which they began doing in 1901, ( all Columbia records had previously been cylinders ).

A previous mention of a Hans Island is found in Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, 1853 ,’ 54 ,’ 55, by Elisha Kent Kane ( 1857 ), pages 317 – 319, making the year 1853 often cited as the date of the discovery and naming of Hans Island, including in the letter by the Danish Ambassador to Canada, published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 2005.

Generally, roads found west of ( or Interstate 35 in some locations ) are designated Ranch to Market Roads, while those located east of US 281 are designated Farm to Market Roads, though there are exceptions to this naming system, such as in Henderson County in East Texas or in Reeves County West Texas.

He believed it to be Andrews ' beaked whale ( a very similar species found only in the Southern Hemisphere ), but Joseph Curtis Moore, an expert on beaked whales at Chicago ’ s Field Museum, reassigned it to a new species, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, in 1963, naming it in his honor.

She is a female Indian Wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human " cub " that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him " Mowgli " ( which means " frog " in the Speech of the Jungle ) because of his hairlessness.

Image: Narmer tarkhan. jpg | Incised inscription on a vessel found at Tarkhan ( tomb 414 ), naming king Narmer ; Petrie Museum UC 16083.