http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19081 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:36:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19081 Anyone really familiar with Neil Armstrong will understand that he has played an important role in that second A as well. He spoke last year at the NASM and talked about aeronautics and the X-15 Program (Yes, he was an X-15 pilot.), and did not talk about lunar execursions.
He is a fitting choice because of that A and that S in NASA (no acronym change required…yet.). I believe it has been discussed and he is OK with it. But the Dryden family….?

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19046 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:09:39 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19046 But then the acronym would be NSA and that just brings up all sorts of issues.

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19014 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:11:35 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-19014 Neil should be honored as highly as possible, with aeronautics becoming less important at the space agency it would be quite simple to redefine the meaning of NASA

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-18981 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:57:28 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/08/02/pressing-ahead-on-renaming-nasa-dryden/#comment-18981 Have they asked Armstrong for his position on this? He doesn’t seem to me to be the 200ft bronze statue type.

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