What Would You Name The Space Station??

 Isn't ISS enough?

In this file photo provided by NASA backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Maybe. Maybe not. It once was known as Alpha. President Reagan wanted to name it Freedom, but that name didn't take.

Parts of the space station have names: Zarya, Kibo, Destiny, Harmony and Columbus, but the entire assembly is just the plain-old, clunky, wordy International Space Station.

The space shuttles all have names. Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour.

Columbia had many great missions ahead of her. She, along with the crew, had her life snuffed out while in her prime."

The space telescopes all have names. Hubble is the most famous orbiting observatory and has a devoted following of people who proudly call themselves Hubble Huggers.

Think of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity and images come to mind of spunky little robots succeeding against the odds. The Mars Phoenix Lander chirped to a large following until the day it died.

"Putting that together on orbit is just incredible, people have forgotten this is still a very risky business, and what is being assembled up there has never been done before," Lane said.

So what would be a good name for the space station? Good question -- and one NASA has been struggling with for years, and perhaps it will reveal its choice this week.