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Ship's have traditionally had women's names so here are my suggestions: - Hypathia (4th century astronomer from Alexandria); - Valentina Tereshkova; - Caroline Herschel; - Henrietta Leavitt; - Sally K. Ride (yeah!); - Julie Payette (Hey, she's from my hometown!); - Amy Mainzer (!!!); -...

My answer is Plesetsk. Encyclopedia Astronomica says Plesetsk has had "over 1711 major launches from 1963 to 2007", and other sources claim between 20 and 30 launches a year since 1994. So average 25 a year since 2007 to June 30th 2012, and that gives us 112 aditionnal lauches. 1711 + 112 =...

Hello Space Fans! Hello from Montreal, space fans! As my handle shows, I'm of an age where I can actually remember seeing the Apollo 11 landing live on TV. After a hiatus of a few decades, I realized that space flight still thrilled me, and so I'm very happy to have found this forum. I'm also...