Space Reactor-1 "Freedom" is the most Soviet name imaginable for a NASA spacecraft.
Though a reminder that of the early NASA missions, the "Pioneer" series was named by a USAF officer to spite the US Army, and the "Ranger" series was literally named after one of the JPL engineer's Ford Ranger truck.
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