City announces finalists for shuttle mock-up naming competition
Sep 25, 2012
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The nose of the disassembled space shuttle mock-up rolls into a temporary storage tent in Downey.
DOWNEY – The city has narrowed down its list of possible names for the space shuttle mock-up from 150 to three.
The City Council tonight will choose between Genesis, Inspiration and Legacy.
The choice is the culmination of a months-long process that started in July with the announcement of the naming contest.
The wooden mock-up is the predecessor to all five Space Shuttles that flew into space.
The giant model was kept inside the Downey NASA site, where engineers used it to design parts and get a feel for how they would fit in with the spacecraft.