"Fortune Favors the Bold". You got that right. Will NASA again be bold?

I certainly hope so.

Is it just me, or does the font look sort of Star-Trek-ish?

It's subliminal - Trek's "been there and done that" with so many advances in science it is used as a benchmark for what could be possible. Hate to point this out guys but they even have a drop on the name 'Constellation class' ...
http://www.shiporama.org/constellation.htm
... lucky Paramount hasn't slapped a copyright on it. eh?

If Name right were a problem, Nasa would have already had trouble with the Shuttle, and Enterprise as well. When lofty goals are of greater importance companies tend to look the other way.

Hi Harold...It's a cool looking logo;...is it going to replace the Nasa " Meatball & Vector "and is there a logo for " Project Constellation " like Project Mercury,Gemini and Apollo ?...any info on the new speech from Pres. Bush other than what is on the web ?.....I think things as they are are heating up and the new man in charge is starting to show that he is a " Can Do " person...This is what is needed !..Jake

Can anyone translate "Fortune Favors the Bold" into Klingon?

This was fun translating to Klingon. http://www.darktrekvoyages.net/klingonDictionary.html
Fortune Favors the Bold
it finds; great desire
klingon; K'neH'a'
No real translation is available.

It is good to see some blogging finally. Welcome to the New names as well as the old ones too good to see you all back.

More News containing info on the Russian Klipper
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg;_id=4307594&startrow;=21&date;=2004-05-13&do;_alert=0

Also SpaceShipOne made it's third powered flight reaching 200,000 feet or a little over 37 miles making it to about half the distance for the x-prize contest.

The final commission hearing info is now all available. The number of hits and contacts/suggestions have steadily risen over the last few weeeks.

Now at *** As Of May 9, 2026 ***

Public Inputs: 6,081
Hits on Website: 5,041,552

Who says that we are not behind the SEI vision efforts. For me it is not better to take care of all the other junk for the winers. Not to follow though with the vision or to postpone it with no time frame never to start IMO is a bad idea.

Latest shuttle return to flight processing status
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/status/stsstat/2004/may/5-7-04s.htm

SpaceDaily has an interesting summary from UPI dated May 11 "A New 'Constellation' At NASA"

I've got in touch with the KLI - Klingon Language Institute - to see if they can give us the original Klingon of that saying "Fortune favors the bold" but I'm not sure if they'll help - they still haven't forgiven us for stealing Hamlet off them!
http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html

Sorry - the URL for that Spacedaily post didn't come through ...
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-04y.html
K

Its a cool logo. Simple, bold and distinctive. Futuristic but with an echo of the Apollo, Gemini logos.

Nick Nicholas, who hosts a very authoratative webpage on Klingon at ...
http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Klingon/klingon.html
...has very kindly given me the following translation of the Project Constellation motto - "Fortune favors the Bold" - into the original Klingon ...
jaqwI' Duv San

In all seriousness, it is a worthy sentiment and it will only be by thinking boldly that we will "slip the surly bonds of Earth". Whilst no one is suggesting that we compromise on safety, I think that the public and congress should accept that space exploration is a risky business and that the laws of probability are what will decide the survivors. No matter what Dupont would have you believe ...
http://www.dupont.com/safety/en/aboutus/results-nasa.shtml
... a 100% safety score is not possible. This would require perfection and humans are not perfect. The closer to the cutting edge of the unknown you get, the more uncertain your safety.

I believe that a commitment to safety can coexist in an space exploration programme with a desire to achieve the expedition goals. But when fate deals you aces and eights, it is a betrayal of the sacrifice of those pioneers who have lost their lives to virtually close the programme down.

Regards

Kirok of L'Stok