My suggestion for renaming the Philae comet lander after the ancient Greek marathon runner Pheidippides (Nature 515 (2014) 492) (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/full/515492f.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20141127)
The Rosetta spacecraft’s Philae probe, which landed successfully on an orbiting comet on 12 November (see Nature http://doi.org/w8k; 2014), could be renamed Pheidippides — for its record-setting marathon run and transmission of its message before collapsing.