# The first interstellar spacecraft **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198 "2013-03-28T18:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/1 "2013-03-28T18:05:21Z")
Assume that the U.S. government has just announced that all technical problems regarding interstellar travel have been solved, and that planning for the first interstellar spacecraft is proceeding. What should that craft be named? I would pick _USS Enterprise_. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/2 "2013-03-28T18:09:10Z")
USS Endeavour ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/3 "2013-03-28T18:20:20Z")
HMS Endeavour ---
**Author:** ![Recusant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Recusant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recusant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/4 "2013-03-28T18:39:33Z")
We did this already- Pioneer Ten. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/5 "2013-03-28T18:39:48Z")
USS _Titanic_. If the mission succeeds, it will be redemption. If it fails, we all kind of knew it would anyway. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/6 "2013-03-28T18:45:35Z")
Crazy Eddie. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/7 "2013-03-28T18:53:18Z")
Mayflower II ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/8 "2013-03-28T19:01:08Z")
_USS Albert II_ ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/9 "2013-03-28T19:03:11Z")
Tim ---
**Author:** ![cougar58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cougar58](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cougar58)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/10 "2013-03-28T19:29:20Z")
uSS Jalado That’s slang for impossible, as in ain’t gonna happen. It would take anywhere from 19,000 to 80,000 yrs, depending on technology used. And that’s just to get the our closet star group, the Centauri trio. As far as the first one to remotely have a chance to support life, fahgetta bout it. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/11 "2013-03-28T19:34:22Z")
USS Thomas Jefferson. So it would be the [Jefferson Starship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blows_Against_the_Empire). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/12 "2013-03-28T19:38:09Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > USS Thomas Jefferson. So it would be the [Jefferson Starship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blows_Against_the_Empire). That’s pretty slick. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/13 "2013-03-28T19:38:26Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > USS Thomas Jefferson. So it would be the [Jefferson Starship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blows_Against_the_Empire). What would it be built on? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/14 "2013-03-28T19:39:01Z")
_New Frontiers_ Watch out for Lazarus! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/15 "2013-03-28T19:50:51Z")
Kon-Tiki ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/16 "2013-03-28T19:54:45Z")
你好\* \*_Ni Hao_, or “Hello” in Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/17 "2013-03-28T19:56:28Z")
USS Here Comes Honey Boo Boo ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/18 "2013-03-28T19:58:55Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > 你好\* > > \*_Ni Hao_, or “Hello” in Chinese. This. ---
**Author:** ![FallFast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FallFast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallFast)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/19 "2013-03-28T20:06:35Z")
USS Buzz Lightyear To Infinity and Beyond . . . ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198/20 "2013-03-28T20:44:46Z")
Well, it would be an experimental craft, so it would get an X designation. Probably **S** tar **E** xplorer **X** -Probe one [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-first-interstellar-spacecraft/654198.md?page=2)