Komedic Kerbal Kallsigns

[Tex]

So a random thought that's been in my head lately was the theme of real life astronauts in the early Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs getting the chance to name their spaceships during missions. Obviously each of the Mercury guys named their flights and capsules, although they all followed a theme. Gus Grissom then named his Gemini capsule "Molly Brown" to poke fun at his near-drowning accident, and for the Apollo program, we had names like Odyssey, Columbia, Challenger, Eagle, and so on.

However, a couple of the names the astronauts chose were Spider, Gumdrop, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy, not serious names with much gravitas at all, which makes for awesome, hilarious names.

I was wondering what other forum members used for names for their ships in that sort of vein- humorous, catchy, callsigns or ship names. I'm looking to make a collection of good ones to use for an upcoming project, and I want to make the majority of mine food or snack-based because Kerbals love snacks 

[AlamoVampire]

Im not sure it qualifies as a callsign but a few of my space stations were called Doxie Station (doxie short for dachshund). Also had a shuttle way back when that ended up living up to its name: LawnDart lol

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Edited June 8, 2023 by AlamoVampire

[Tex]

Nice, nice, Lawn Dart is a good one!

[SunlitZelkova]

Oreo 1

[LHACK4142]

I called my career rockets with way too many fins the "flying christmas trees"

[OrdinaryKerman]

PopsicSAT-KELOO1

Also an alphanumeric Mission Identifier Code (MIC, format: CBORMx) CB is celestial body, OR is orbit type, M is equipped mission, x is sequential number. The same craft can have multiple MICs if it has multiple targets. An exception to that can be made for missions that have multiple prime targets in a planetary system (e. g. Jool 5 craft), those can be assigned just the code for a parent body with a Multi-target OR

CB

Moho

Eve

Gilly

Kerbin

Mun

Minmus

Duna

Ike

Dres

Jool

Laythe

Vall

Tylo

Bop

Pol

Eeloo

Kerbol

Asteroids

Comets

MO

EV

E1

KE

K1

K2

DU

D1

DR

JO

J1

J2

J3

J4

J5

EL

KB

AS

CO

 

OR

Low

Mid

High

Sync

Geosync

Polar low

Polar mid

Polar high

Sun-sync*

Flyby

Lander

Retro low

Retro mid

Retro high

Molniya

Escape**

Multi-target

LO

MO

HO

SO

GS

PL

PM

PH

SS

FL

LN

RL

RM

RH

ML

ST

MT

(*not applicable to stock physics I think) (**or interstellar if relevant mods present)

M

Generic science

Observ.(vis, multispec)

Terrain map (RADAR, LIDAR)

Comm

Spy

Mining

Resource map

Weather

SIGINT

Ocean

Srf explor.

S

O

T

C

S*

M

R

W

C*

A

E

(*Spy and SIGINT missions use the same number series as their regular counterparts Observation and Communication respectively)

Edited June 9, 2023 by OrdinaryKerman

[Tex]

Niiiice, nice. It's always tough to decide on how best to name missions separately rather than just flying 5 of the exact same ship with different crew.