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.

The commanders and pilots who fly the orbiters describe each of them as having their own individual personality. When the Space Shuttle Columbia fell apart in 2003 the astronaut who was the pilot on its first mission recalled Columbia lovingly.