Comment by BurningFrog

2 days ago

Important naming rule: Never call your version 2 "New Foo"!

Because the name will remain long after it was new. The naming scheme also crashes at version 3.

The New Glenn name is from 2016.

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Ajedi32  2 days ago

New Glenn isn't a "version 2". The name is a reference to John Glenn, the first American to orbit earth. Think "New York" not "New iPhone".

  • BurningFrog  2 days ago

    Thanks!

    Still a weird naming scheme though. A rocket is not a new astronaut. Am I missing something clever?

    • placardloop  2 days ago

      Rockets aren’t birds either, and yet: Falcon 9 (the Falcon 9 also is the second iteration of the Falcon rockets, not the ninth, so…)

      Rockets also aren’t planets, and yet: Saturn V

      Rockets also aren’t mythological horse/man creatures, and yet: Vulcan Centaur

      You’re overthinking it.

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    • ttepasse  2 days ago

      Back in the 2010s Blue Origin had a naming scheme after the pioneering flights of American astronauts:

      The suborbital rocket New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard who was the first American astronaut and whose flight was a suborbital arc.

      New Glenn is named after John Glenn whose first flight was the first orbital flight.

      There was also talk of a New Armstrong rocket, although Neil Armstrong wasn’t the first American to "reach" the Moon. But then together with Buzz he was the first to land and the first to walk. I don’t know if New Armstrong's still getting developed.