Argo

Argo is the ship of Jason and the Argonauts in Greek myth, named for its builder Argus and the vessel that carried the crew to Colchis for the Golden Fleece. The fullest surviving account is Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the third century BC, with an earlier tradition reaching back to Homer’s Odyssey (Book 12). Argo became the literary archetype of the long exploratory voyage; the constellation Argo Navis, later split into Carina, Puppis, and Vela, was named for it. This is the mythological ship, not the modern Argo float program.