The acronym U-N-R-E-S-T is how NASA pronounced Uranus. It has also been called the Planet of Seven Rings, because there are seven known moons that circle this planet. If you have any doubt, consider the other planets in our solar system. They were named after their rulers (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and NASA’s first space shuttle mission name).
You know what else is on that planet? That’s right, F-O-M-E – which means “I farthest planet”. If you’re unfamiliar with all the moons circling the gas giant planet, that’s why you’re not in the space museum – you don’t know how to say that in space!
In fact, you probably have quite a few questions about space and quite a few about space travel. How does NASA say that the astronauts took pictures of the Earth from space? Did they use a digital camera or a film camera? That’s the way they do it, obviously, because you can’t take photographs from space, but you can observe it from the ground and get very lucky. When I used to live in Cape Canaveral, Florida, I watched the launches of all the space shuttles and the maneuvers of the astronauts, and that’s how I learned to say “here we go again” – as in, “here we are again at the launch site”.
You might ask how NASA came up with that name for the third planet from the solar system. Well, if you want to get technical, it was chosen because it was believed at the time that this planet was made out of debris that escaped from a spacerestrial collision. After further study it was discovered that this was not the case – the material used to build the planet’s moon was created from an asteroid. In fact, many scientists believe that this is why all the planets in our solar system were created – to have them close together and be within reach of other space debris.
It also helps that NASA is the only institution of its kind that uses a standard English dictionary. That means when they encounter words that they don’t recognize, they can look it up in the dictionary to see if there’s a synonym for it in there. So how does NASA say “Uranus?” It’s on page 4 of the dictionary. The reason that they choose that word is because it’s easy to pronounce and it’s the easiest word to translate into English.
If you’re asking yourself, “How does NASA pronounce Uranus? “, then the answer is relatively simple. They pronounce it “uy-rus”. If they had to translate the word into another language, they would probably get “yup” or “you bet”. Of course, they wouldn’t put it in capital letters, just lowercase letters.