[proud American in Canada]

What a beautiful culture! They name their space equipment after what...God and Godesses? *rolls eyes*

Whereas Americans and Canadians have more utilitarian names, like Challenger, The Canadian Arm (not sure what it’s called in English but it helped the space shuttle get repaired, I think), Rover, etc.

Even the Soviets had Sputnik, though I have no idea what it means.

[markman46]

The Canada arm 2 is on the iss, I believe the one on the shuttle was just the Canada arm

[Joe Brower]

‘Sputnik’ means ‘satellite’ in Russian, iirc.

[wildcard_redneck]

What a beautiful culture! They name their space equipment after what...God and Godesses? *rolls eyes*

Whereas Americans and Canadians have more utilitarian names, like Challenger, The Canadian Arm (not sure what it’s called in English but it helped the space shuttle get repaired, I think), Rover, etc.

The name for the Canadian robot arm of the space shuttle was "Fisto Roboto"

[Textide]

We started off that way. Our first three programs were...

Mercury
Gemini
Apollo

Our rocket names carry on that way.

Thor
Minotaur
Titan
Atlas
etc...

Nothing wrong with the Chicoms doing that from my perspective. It’s better than the old Soviet way of Soyuz (Union), Foton (Photon), Luna (moon), etc. Pretty dry naming convention.