Sep 10 1984
From The Space Library
NASA and ESA changed the name of their International Solar Polar Mission to "Ulysses" They made the change, proposed by ESA and concurred in by NASA, not only in reference to Homer's mythological hero but also for the Italian poet Dante's description (in the 26th Canto of his "Inferno") of Ulysses's urge to explore "an uninhabited world behind the Sun" The reference from the "Inferno" was appropriate because the mission would permit measurements to be made for the first time away from the ecliptic plane and over the poles of the Sun-the mission's trajectory taking the spacecraft into the uncharted third dimension of the heliosphere. (NASA Release 84-127)
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