If you can name an aircraft carrier it, you can name your spaceship it.

    • hstde@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      True it was active in 1977 16 years after CVN-65 entered active duty. It was only a civilian test vehicle though and was only named enterprise because of public demand. Maybe that had something to do with it.