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The European Space Agency's next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to roll off the production line will be called Albert Einstein.

The Johannes Kepler docking with the ISS in February 2011. Pic: ESA

Space trucks Jules Verne (ATV-1) and Johannes Kepler (ATV-2, pictured above) have already carried supplies to the International Space Station, and will be followed in February next year by Edoardo Amaldi (ATV-3).

Pressurised module of the ATV Albert Einstein being manufactured in December 2010 in Turin by Thales Alenia. Pic: ESA

Albert Einstein (ATV-4) is being built (see pic) at various sites across Europe, ahead of a 2013 launch. The name was proposed by the ESA's Swiss delegation, since although the physicist was born in Germany, he "studied and spent his early career in Switzerland". ®

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Just wondering...

if the article should have been called:

Worlds biggest tumble dryer to be called the Albert Einstein.

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This is a title

They learned the hard way that a pure oxygen environment can be very bad. See "Apollo 1 disaster" for the reason why.

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Surely the next Space Truck

should be called the 'Deep Purple'...

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