Comments on: 3..2..1.. Blog name!

Question: 3..2..1.. Blog name!

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:18:51 -0800

What would be a good name for a blog/site about the Apollo space program?

Specifically, the site would be covering the missions, technology, politics and people (designers, engineers, mission control and astronauts) of the program. It would be written as an adventure story in the sense of "hey, this is amazing and here is how this amazing thing came about, began and ended and here are the incredible people, technology and groups that made it happen."

But the blog needs a name and I'm stumped on that point. What do you suggest?

By: mikepop

mikepop — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:21:27 -0800

The Apollo Age

By: Emperor SnooKloze

Emperor SnooKloze — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:22:42 -0800

Houston, we have a bloglem.

By: cheeken

cheeken — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:24:16 -0800

Apollo-getics

Akin to the theological sense of the word, meaning: the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information.

By: exogenous

exogenous — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:24:44 -0800

One Small Blog for Man

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:25:53 -0800

The Apollo Creed

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:26:09 -0800

"Riding Fire" is what I've read some astronauts call going up, and that'd be a good adventure-story name.

You could also call it "men went to the moon with less computing power than your toaster's timing chip" but that seems long.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:29:59 -0800

More seriously, you could go with Ad Astra, which means "to the stars" and has the advantage of having been said (in its most famous iteration, in Virgil) by Apollo himself, so it's kind of a double whammy.

By: mikepop

mikepop — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:31:39 -0800

The Chosen Moon
Decade of Hope and Fear
A Spacefaring Nation
This New Sea

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:33:25 -0800

Apollo 18

By: deezil

deezil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:35:19 -0800

Eagle's Landing.

By: steef

steef — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:38:01 -0800

APOLLOLOG

By: Narrative Priorities

Narrative Priorities — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:42:41 -0800

I would love to read this blog!

Do you want something in-jokey or a name that any casual reader would immediately get?

I've been reading about the Apollo program quite a bit recently for my own reasons, and I really love the term "translunar coast," but I'm not sure how good of a blog title it would be....

This page includes the titles for the various CMs and LMs -- perhaps something might jump out at you? "Gumdrop Spider", "Eagle, Falcon, Kitty Hawk", etc

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:42:44 -0800

Houston, Do You Read?

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:43:53 -0800

Mr. Gorsky's Lucky Day

The Buzz

Professor Pete Conrad's Happy Family Fun Time Moon Blog

Lunar Regolith

The Ascent Stage

Parking Orbit

Rendezvous

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:47:42 -0800

"Riding Fire" sound great, too bad someone is sitting on the domain name. But it comes close to expressing the thrill and danger of the program.

By: empath

empath — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:48:04 -0800

Moon Shots

By: Sphinx

Sphinx — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:06:10 -0800

Sea of Tranquility.

By: Narrative Priorities

Narrative Priorities — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:13:13 -0800

A friend on Twitter* pointed out the obvious, "One Giant Leap."

alternately...

The Leap Years

(I may have mentioned on Twitter that I had spent like an hour torturing myself about this question)

By: Capt. Renault

Capt. Renault — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:23:56 -0800

Trans Lunar Injection.

By: Capt. Renault

Capt. Renault — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:27:42 -0800

Or, to be more romantic, "Because They Are Hard".

(Assuming the domain isn't taken up by something porny.)

By: ashirys

ashirys — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:29:27 -0800

For some reason, I keep coming back to the idea of trail-blazing, both because the Apollo program was all about going somewhere that no one had been before, and because of the rocket trails created during lift-off. Unfortunately, most of the variants for that specific word aren't available as domains, but what about Blazing Trails? Combines the fire and heat imagery of the rocket in flight with the concept of discovery.

By: Capt. Renault

Capt. Renault — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:33:38 -0800

From Gus' eulogy, "Our Course on Earth is Done".

By: Rash

Rash — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:49:53 -0800

For All Mankind . com

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:52:14 -0800

moonmemories.com
moonmemoirs.com

By: argonauta

argonauta — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:53:49 -0800

Lunar Emissions

By: brownpau

brownpau — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:18:16 -0800

How about Orange Soil? That was one of the more exciting surface EVA highlights on Apollo 17.

I remember learning about Apollo 17 from some obscure documentary back in the 80s. A few years later when Eugene Cernan came to the Philippines to give a talk, I approached the mic at question time and asked him about the orange soil thing. He was startled that some random Filipino fifth-grader was so well-acquainted with the details of the mission and said something along the lines of "Now this kid, this kid's been doin' his homework."

By: ElDiabloConQueso

ElDiabloConQueso — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:20:57 -0800

Riffing off of what The Bellman said, how about Ad Luna? (Someone feel free to correct my Latin if needed).

By: Tom-B

Tom-B — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:32:51 -0800

2nding Trans Lunar Injection!

By: Tom-B

Tom-B — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:35:30 -0800

Bonus awesomeness: if it`s a blog, use period correct dates for the posts! (ie moon landing in 1969, etc.)

By: Drasher

Drasher — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:06:46 -0800

How about "To the MOON, Alice!"

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:23:46 -0800

Because It Was Up There.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:44:46 -0800

Choose the Moon.

By: fings

fings — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:33:09 -0800

Tranquility Base

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:48:05 -0800

Other suggestions, thoughts?

Taming the moon
Blazing Paths
Handling Fire
Aiming for the moon
Capturing the Moon
Riding Fire to the Moon

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:32:58 -0800

I am Flight and Flight is God.

Chris Kraft said that.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:46:03 -0800

He did! I don't think it works as a blog name, but hell yeah as a post title, thanks!