Space History and Nostalgia
In his fascinating and illuminating book "The Moon Landings" the then BBC correspondent Reg Turnill records that following the Apollo 10 flight Neil Armstrong announced that the rather frivolous naming of the CSM and LM of "Charlie Brown" and "Snoopy" would be dropped and that the Apollo 11 moon landing vehicles were to have the rather more dignified names Columbia and Eagle.
He then goes on to say that Armstrong hinted that he "they had an unofficial name that they'd apply to the lunar landing site, but didn't tell us what it was."
Is there any clue as to what that name was? Astronauts often have a wonderfully dry sense of humour and I have my guess, but did anything ever leak out on this?
Last edited by Wageslave; 2nd May 2016 at 21:26.