I find this relatively recent trend of naming spacecrafts after people very unfortunate. Would be much easier to have names like in the 60's or 70's like Marine

I find this relatively recent trend of naming spacecrafts after people very unfortunate. Would be much easier to have names like in the 60's or 70's like Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager followed by a number. Even abbreviation like OSIRIS-REx seems to far-fetched and hard to place in context, while when you see a name like Mariner-9 you know that it is a one of the small-scale planetary spacecrafts of the broader Mariner program.