Elite / Frontier celebrities in frontier

a long list i suspect, ;)
stuart, many you know better than me, but one John McDouall Stuart, scot. geometer who measured australia.
gordon, countless, richard gordon us-astronaut, william e. gordon us physician & astronom.
patrick, very common, one Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, but he's to young (*64).
charles, Jacques Alexandre César Charles, first manned hydrogen balloon flight.
morgan, Augustus De Morgan, mathematician (a crater on moon is named after him also). Barbara Radding Morgan us astronaut.
lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, us physicist, cyclotron (lawrencium, also a crater on moon).
lee, stan lee, marvel comics (why not?), various american generals.
lloyd, Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, historian & anthropologist.
brett, jacob & john watkins brett, telecom. pioneers, first telegr. cable through the channel.
graham, Andrew Graham, irish astronomer, Thomas Graham, scots chemist
grant, Robert Edmond Grant, scots physician, biologist,
eckhard, this is hard, maybe Eckhard John, founder of ger. mysticism
werner, Johannes Werner, lat. Vernerus, ger. priest, Astrologer, opponent to copernicus.
chester, no remarkable surnames, Chester Floyd Carlson, physicist, inventor, xerography.
smith, sweat! Benjamin Leigh Smith, brit. arctic explorer. Edward Elmer "Skylark" Smith, food engineer, early science fiction author, father of Space Opera.

i think you will find for every name used a compendium in real world even if you select only scientists and sci-fi authors. i will keep the list up next time i'm in the mood. addings welcome just post a pm and i add it to the list, or replie as common.
 
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I don't know if these have any references in Elite / FE2 or FFE,
but I thought as you were on the subject to mention them :

Some unknown notables :

Christer Fuglesang - 1st Swede in space
Claudie Haignere - 1st Frenchwoman in space
Robert Lawrence - 1st black astronaut
Ivan Bella - 1st Slovak in space
Sergei Krikalev - Record for longest time in space (803d 9h 39m)
Toktar Aubakirov - 1st ethnic Kazakh in space
Millie Hughes-Fulford - 1st female payload specialist
Aleksei Leonov - 1st person to make an EVA
Sigmund Jahn - 1st German in space

I did that list for the backronym contest and it took a bit of research to do.

As for references in the Elite games,
we've been speculating of references in Elite 4 :Collection of Ideas for Elite 4
Had another idea.

Remembering that some of the space stations in Frontier E2 and FFE had names like Asimov and Ridley Scott and the like. I think it would be cool to have a roster or similar where we could get one named after ourselves - O B Have Space Casino or T.J. Mining base, Turwhitt's Trading Bazar etc... Be a fun way to promote the game as well. I'm sure a few people would buy the game only to go find themselves (excuse the horrible pun).
I thought of one..

Alien's Pet Store

I could sell you a very nice pet called a Tribble
Or maybe you'd be interested in this one called Gizmo

There were others :rolleyes:
 
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Ridley Scott & George Lucas

I can't remember the names of the planets they were orbiting but they were both within 7lys of Lave
 
Ridley Scott & George Lucas

I can't remember the names of the planets they were orbiting but they were both within 7lys of Lave

I vote for Angus Manwaring and Zat Solo, but only because I am geeky enough to enjoy obscure Elite in-jokes ;)
 
ridley scott, angus manwaring, george lucas, amundsen..... we all know (as longtime frontierplayers).
the reason why i started this out was, bananascope was wondering if ther'e any else, so i thought, let's check the names of ffe and see what we find else.
further, i think there is allready a list of station names related to real life, but i didn't remember where to find :(
 
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rgmarret
ridley scott is orbiting industry, system zaonce -2,-6, they've got all equipment parts and are very trusted by me.
george lucas orbiting leesti1, leesti -3,-6.
la seur du dan ham orbiting waterloo, system riedquat -3,-6.
angus manwaring orbiting feynman, system eta cassiopeia 0,2
better use starsys next time ;)
 
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