"Space Launch System" needs a better name!

[Kryten]

ISS is easier to say than SLS, because it has a vowel.

You mean there are people that actually call it 'iss?' I've never heard that.

[SargeRho]

No, "I S S" is easier to say than "S L S", for me at least SLS is a bit of a tongue breaker.

[Nibb31]

Time to see a speech therapist. Seriously. There's nothing hard about pronouncing SLS.

[SargeRho]

Might have to do with the fact that, due to the fact that I live in Spain, and Spanish people speak very quickly, I speak very quickly too, and SLS comes out as "S Less", and quite distorted, and I feel like I need some brain-bleach every time I say it out loud

[AcidSludge]

"Bob" is a good name for everything. Let's call it Bob.

[TythosEternal]

You mean there are people that actually call it 'iss?' I've never heard that.

Interestingly, on that note, Neal Stephenson dubbed it "Izzy" in his latest novel, Seveneves, but that's literally the only time I've heard an alterative to "eye-ess-ess."

[Legendary Emu]

We could call it something after Saturn's moons? It is kinda like Saturn 5, right?

What about Iapetus/Japetus?

Or maybe even (insert lame "SLS is a money furnace and spacex is literally the best thing ever" joke here.)

[SargeRho]

Jupiter could work, after this proposed rocket family:

[Frida Space]

Jupiter could work

Jupiter was a sounding rocket which later was renamed Juno I (and modified a bit) to launch America's first satellite, the Explorer 1.

[SargeRho]

Jupiter II?

[Camacha]

We have had enough Jupiters, there are plenty good names out there. Reuse will just confuse things.

[Aanker]

Thor, now that would be a cool name.

Or, maybe, for the patriotically inclined - name them after U.S. presidents, as it is with some of the carriers.

[Bill Phil]

Jupiter was a sounding rocket which later was renamed Juno I (and modified a bit) to launch America's first satellite, the Explorer 1.

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2005/06/images/davidoff_juno_15.jpg

Wasn't Juno I derived from Redstone?

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Thor, now that would be a cool name.

Or, maybe, for the patriotically inclined - name them after U.S. presidents, as it is with some of the carriers.

You mean like the missile?

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[Kibble]

Thor, now that would be a cool name.

Thor is the name of a currently flying rocket stage, directly derived from the missile of the same name.

[RainDreamer]

Or, maybe, for the patriotically inclined - name them after U.S. presidents, as it is with some of the carriers.

And when one of them blow up, that is going to sounds funny.

"Obama went up in flame".

[Robotengineer]

And when one of them blow up, that is going to sounds funny.

"Obama went up in flame".

Better than the burning Bush.

[SargeRho]

ELS - Exploration Launch System

At least it sounds sliiiiiightly less generic than SLS

[hugix]

"thingamajig"

Because it would sound awesome in the launch commentary!

[tater]

Porky.

Then at the end of each official video, they can borrow from Looney Toons and say, "Tha-tha-that's all, folks!"

[Zucal]

Porky

Or how about we stop this terrible joke trend.

[m4v]

The more naive and inocent kids at schools can think a proper name, i'll just keep on calling it with cynical ones.

My suggestion is Earth Science Budget Sink System

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[Zucal]

The more naive and inocent kids at schools can think a proper name, i'll just keep on calling it with cynical ones.

My suggestion is Earth Science Budget Sink System

Trying to actually come up with names for SLS in the spirit of the thread is naive and innocent? I prefer to think of it as being optimistic and fun. Also, making the same joke a dozen others have isn't cynical or realistic, it's just unfunny.

[tater]

Or how about we stop this terrible joke trend.

Because the bottom line from my accountant a month and a half ago at tax time is still fresh in my mind, and I'd prefer tax dollars spent based upon merit, not pork barrel politics that make me feel like I'm driving an expensive car off a cliff every year. Given that that will never happen, might as well make jokes.

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The more naive and inocent kids at schools can think a proper name, i'll just keep on calling it with cynical ones.

My suggestion is Earth Science Budget Sink System

LOL.

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[Zucal]

Because the bottom line from my accountant a month and a half ago at tax time is still fresh in my mind, and I'd prefer tax dollars spent based upon merit, not pork barrel politics that make me feel like I'm driving an expensive car off a cliff every year. Given that that will never happen, might as well make jokes.

I'm happy NASA is getting anything at all. I can think of plenty of things my tax money is being wasted on, but human exploration of space is definitely not one of them.