Daedalus (disambiguation)

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The character Daedalus from Greek mythology has lent his name to many other things:

• Daedalus crater on the far side of the Moon.
• 1864 Daedalus, an asteroid.
• Dædalus, the quarterly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Project Daedalus, an interstellar spaceship project by the British Interplanetary Society.
• A U. S. publisher, Daedalus Publishing.
• A British publisher, Dedalus Books.
• DAEDALUS, a European computer science research project.
• A teacher's association creating teaching software: see Daedalus (association).
• The Royal Naval air station in Lincolnshire, England, which became RAF Cranwell after the amalgamation of the Royal Naval Air Service with the Royal Flying Corps of the British Army on April 1, 1918.
• Daedelus (musician), a recording artist and musician on the Ninja Tune independent record label.
• A human-powered aircraft, the MIT Daedalus
• Daedalus (band), a progressive rock/metal band from Italy.
• HMS Daedalus a nineteenth century corvette from England.

[edit] In fiction

• Stephen Dedalus, a pen name and a character of James Joyce.
• A fictional starship class from the Star Trek TV show: see List of Starfleet ship classes.
• "Daedalus (Enterprise episode)", a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• A fictional space station in the movie SpaceCamp.
• An AI in the computer game Deus Ex: see Deus Ex characters.
• The Battle Cruiser USAF Daedalus, lead ship of her class, from the Stargate universe.
• The name of a fictional Space Shuttle operated by NASA in the movie Space Cowboys.
• A fictional inventor created by New Scientist columnist David E. H. Jones: see The Inventions of Daedalus.
• A founding member of the Freedom League, from the Mutants and Masterminds Freedom City campaign setting. In that universe, Daedalus was given immortality by the gods in exchange for the loss of his son Icarus, and spent the next several thousand years wandering and fighting injustice. He developed a suit of power armor.
• In the webcomic Sluggy Freelance, Daedelus is the name of the enigmatic head of the evil company Hereti-Corp. He is shown only as a silhouette.
• Daedalus is the name of a summon in Golden Sun: The Lost Age.
• Daedalus Yumeno is a physician and scientist character in the anime Ergo Proxy.
• The Daedalus is one of the rocket ships in Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1950).