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Since you bring up naming, man/unmanned really needs to be dropped for crewed/uncrewed. NASA technically adopted this in 2006, but they still mess it up. Here's
by ohitsdom 7y ago
Since you bring up naming, man/unmanned really needs to be dropped for crewed/uncrewed. NASA technically adopted this in 2006, but they still mess it up. Here's more info on their terminology, as well as other options you brought up:
https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/10050900-finding-new-language.html https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/100509...
- ChuckMcM 7y agoThank you for that, pretty much exactly what I was wondering. Presuming "uncrewed" gets added to the dictionary I would expect that to prevail as the antonym for "crewless" might reasonably be "crewful", which also sounds weirder than "uncrewed"/"crewed".