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In 1961 legendary astronomer Frank Drake started Project OSMA.
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Drake scrounged together an antenna and dish using scrapped radar parts from World War II
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there's this many planets and this many star systems and here's Drake's equation. Uh, and it was
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This is the Drake launch, okay? What you're looking at here, this is actually the mission patch. This isn't the patch that was used on the rocket.
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And then the word Drake right over it, not the wrapper, the dragon. And then underneath we have non-Moriaris bellow, which is old Latin and it translates into thou shalt not die in battle.
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So the description says the namesake Drake for NROL 38 is rooted in Greek mythology, Old English, and honors a former NRO employee who lost a valiant fight against cancer.
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Drake or fire Drake comes from the Old English for dragon in Greek mythology. There's a legend of the drako or three headed dragon.
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