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Land of Typos: part NASA

Nice try ... but should be "Endeavour"

Yes, this is an old story that hit the news about two years ago. I thought about it after Wednesday’s scheduled shuttle launch was postponed yet again.

Just your basic typo . . . printed in about 500-point type. The shuttle’s name is not “Endeavor,” but “Endeavour”; its British spelling reflects the fact that the ship is named after the HM Bark Endeavour, a 10-gun Royal Navy bark commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71

USA Today had the best headline for this story: “Houston, we have a typo.”

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