Maybe you can鈥檛 write your name in the stars, but you might just get to name
NASA鈥檚 next space observatory. The agency is holding a contest to rename the
Space Infrared Telescope Facility, due for launch in July 2002. SIRTF is the
last of NASA鈥檚 鈥淕reat Observatories鈥�. The other three鈥攖he Hubble Space
Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray
Observatory鈥攚ere named after famous scientists following similar
competitions. If you have a suggestion go to the SIRTF website
(http://sirtf.caltech.edu/namingcontest).
The only proviso is that the honoured individual has to be dead.
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