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| Belated, but here's for all you've done for the project since 2004!Neopeius (talk)02:05, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply] |
A discussion is taking place to address the redirectWikipedia:POVFIGHTER. The discussion will occur atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 23#Wikipedia:POVFIGHTER until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion.Crossroads-talk-05:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi JFG,
I have seen your important activity onJeanne Calment's article andtalk page (now archives 1-4). You did a very good job in enhancing the quality of the debate and article, but for some reason your effort waned after January 2020, which gave the opportunity for some POV-pusher to get his edit lastingone whole year. He removed key references. I tried to bring them back, but so is he (back). I am defending myself in the talk page but I will need support. The "conspiracy" bots don't seem to care about rational arguments.
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Article of the month..jpg) Michael Collins was an Americanastronaut who flew theApollo 11command moduleColumbia around theMoon in 1969 while his crewmates,Neil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on thesurface. He was selected as part ofNASA'sthird group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice. | Image of the month. The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of theApollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Category:Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with thecategorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments atthe category's entry on thecategories for discussion page. Thank you.fgnievinski (talk)19:15, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Article of the month. Lisa Marie Nowak is an Americanaeronautical engineer, and formerNASAastronaut andUnited States Navycaptain. Nowak was selected by NASA forNASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. She flew in space aboardSpace ShuttleDiscovery during theSTS-121 mission in July 2006. In 2007, Nowak was involved in an incident that led to her dismissal from NASA and the Navy. This article was promoted to featured status last month! | Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021.
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Image of the month. Offical portrait ofEdwin E. Aldrin Jr. (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on theApollo 11 mission. This image was promoted to featured status last month! Members New Members:
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Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur was a version of theCentaurupper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside theSpace Shuttle. Two variants were developed:Centaur G-Prime andCentaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle. | Image of the month..png) This is anExtreme Deep Field image taken from theHubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Article of the month. Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight inNASA'sApollo program, and saw the resumption ofhuman spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the threeApollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded byWalter M. Schirra, withcommand module pilotDonn F. Eisele andlunar module pilotR. Walter Cunningham. | Image of the month. Official portrait ofIlan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space ShuttleColumbia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was newdiscussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days,the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
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And since you lost that discussion or gave up I just feel Ive wasted a full day of my vacation on something pointless as if your argument didn´t convince people I don´t know what will."Thanks Onceinawhile for adding a column showing whether any claim of sovereignty by an occupying power is recognized internationally. It proves the point that occupations and subsequent annexations are almost never recognized internationally, at least not before decades, and sometimes never until the territory acquires stateship itself (see Baltic states under the Soviet Union or East Timor under Indonesia). Accordingly, international recognition cannot be a criterion to determine whether an occupied territory has been annexed or not. — JFG talk 10:15, 14 July 2018 (UTC)"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_military_occupations/Archive_5
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After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinatorsBuidhe andZippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations toDr vulpes who led with 880 points. Seethis page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need theother 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at leastone a day.
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Hi there,I was going through the archives related to Manned/Human spaceflight entries on Wikipedia and I saw your entry from 2018"I understand the motivation, however I think we shouldn't retroactively change vocabulary. "Manned spaceflight" or "human spaceflight" has been a cultural symbol for decades; suddenly calling it "crewed spaceflight" because 21st-century polite society is wary of any gendered word would be anachronistic. We should rather follow the vocabulary used by contemporary sources: for those events where most WP:RS refer to "crewed" flights, then we can use that word, otherwise keep them "manned". — JFG talk 22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)"In any case, I wanted to commend you for making that argument and tell you I feel similarly. This new language that NASA is using seems to be coming from the right place, but may not end up leading us somewhere better down the road. I'm happy to talk more about my thoughts on this and hear what else you might say.
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Article of the month.png) TheFamily Portrait, or sometimesPortrait of the Planets, is an image of theSolar System acquired byVoyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions. The picture is amosaic of 60 frames. The frames used to compose the image were the last photographs taken by either Voyager spacecraft (which continued to relay other telemetry afterward). The frames were also the source of the famousPale Blue Dot image of theEarth. AstronomerCarl Sagan, who was part of the Voyager imaging team, campaigned for many years to have the pictures taken.[failed verification] | Image of the month STS-98 following liftoff  Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to theDestiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. Flown byAtlantis, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed atEdwards Air Force Base on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted ofKenneth Cockrell, commander,Mark L. Polansky, pilot,Robert Curbeam, mission specialist 1,Marsha Ivins, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, andThomas David Jones, mission specialist 3. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Article of the month The Phootprint mission was conceived as a candidate for the Mars Robotic Exploration Preparation Programme 2 (MREP-2) at ESA. In 2014, ESA funded Footprint's pre-phase A feasibility study and an 8-month industrial system study. The mission would have lasted about 3.5 years, including the cruise time to Phobos, orbit mapping, 7 days on the surface, and finally, the sample return cruise time. The spacecraft would be powered bysolar arrays. In August 2015, theESA-Roscosmos working group, after cooperation onExoMars, completed a joint study for a possible future Phobos Sample Return mission, and preliminary discussions were held. | Image of the month InSight lander testing  TheInSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander was selected from among three options in August 2012. Initially planned to launch in March 2016, an instrument issue delayed the launch to May 2018, the next Earth-Marslaunch window. It was successfully launched on 5 May, and landed onElysium Planitia on 26 November 2018. Taking seismographic and thermographic readings, InSight operated for a total of 4 years and 19 days instead of its planned 2 year mission. The mission was declared over on 21 December, 2022 after contact was lost on 15 December. A re-analysis of some of its data indicates that there may be significant amounts of groundwater in Mars' crust. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Article of the month The ApolloAbort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of failure of theLunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar landing. The AGS was designed byTRW independently of the development of theApollo Guidance Computer andPGNCS. It was the first navigation system to use a strapdownInertial Measurement Unit rather than a gimbaled gyrostabilized IMU (as used byPGNCS). Although not as accurate as the gimbaled IMU, it provided satisfactory accuracy with the help of the optical telescope and rendezvousradar. It was also lighter and smaller in size. | Image of the month Falcon 9 Full Thrust .jpg) Starting development in 2014, theFalcon 9 Full Thrust is a variant of theFalcon 9 that is the first orbital rocket to have a first stage successfully land vertically after launch. The stage shown here is from the April 2016SpaceX CRS-8 mission, after landing on theautonomous spaceport drone shipOf Course I Still Love You. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Article of the month 2001 Mars Odyssey is arobotic spacecraftorbiting theplanetMars. The project was developed byNASA, and contracted out toLockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to usespectrometers and athermal imager to detect evidence of past or presentwater and ice, as well as study theplanet's geology and radiation environment. The dataOdyssey obtains is intended to help answer the question of whetherlife once existed on Mars and create a risk-assessment of the radiation that future astronauts on Mars might experience. It also acts as a relay for communications between theCuriosity rover, and previously theMars Exploration Rovers andPhoenix lander, toEarth. The mission was named as a tribute toArthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of his andStanley Kubrick's 1968 film2001: A Space Odyssey. Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001, on aDelta II rocket fromCape Canaveral Air Force Station, and reached Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, at 02:30UTC (October 23, 19:30PDT, 22:30EDT). As of March 2025, it is still collecting data, and is estimated to have enough propellant to function until the end of 2025. It currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of thePioneer Venus Orbiter (served 14 years) and theMars Express (serving over 20 years), at 24 years, 1 month and 2 days. As of October 2019[update] it is in apolar orbit around Mars with a semi-major axis of about 3,800 km or 2,400 miles. | Image of the month International Space Station after LF1  Starting withZarya in November 1998, theassembly of the International Space Station continued on a regular basis until theSpace Shuttle Columbia disaster, which resulted in a nearly three-year pause from November 2002 to July 2005. This image shows the ISS following the installation of thesecond External stowage platform. ESP-2 was launched on 26 July 2005 on boardDiscovery as part ofSTS-114. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Article of the month Gaganyaan-1 (fromSanskrit:gagana, "celestial" andyāna, "craft, vehicle") is the first planned uncrewed test flight of theGaganyaan programme. TheIndian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has scheduled the mission for December 2025. The spacecraft will carry Vyommitra, a half-humanoid female robot, to simulate astronaut conditions and provide critical data on life-support and environmental systems. The mission will demonstrate the performance of the crew module and service module in low Earth orbit, serving as a precursor to future human spaceflight under the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. The launch was originally scheduled for December 2020, then in December 2021, but it was delayed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. The flight plan was finally ready by April 2022 and the launch is expected to take place in early 2025, after theTV-D1, TV-D2, TV-D3 and TV-D4. It was proposed in April 2022 that the crew module should be depressurized, something kept in the final planning. TheGaganyaan spacecraft will be launched, with the humanoid robotVyommitra, by aHuman-rated LVM 3 fromSatish Dhawan Space Centre and inserted into a 170 x 408 km orbit. The circularisation maneuver will be performed at the third orbit. The landing should follow the same pattern as theTV-D1. | Image of the month Hybrid-Propellant Rocket Fuel  Rocket engines typically use one of two types of propellant:Solid orliquid.Hybrid-propellant rockets use a combination of these two forms of fuel, and lack some of the disadvantages of both. Theirspecific impulse is usually betweensolid-propellant andliquid-propellant rockets. The image shown here is of a 3D-printedgrain, designed for a small hybrid rocket engine which would be used to demonstrate rocket combustion. On the left are two helical fuel ports, on the right ade Laval nozzle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Article of the month Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) is aNASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project to design a rover that can operate in the environment ofVenus, controlled by a wind-poweredmechanical computer.Venus's atmosphere is about 90 times denser than Earth's and the surface temperature is at least 462 °C (864 °F), conditions which would prevent a standard electronic computer from operating for any significant period of time. While AREE is being designed for operation on Venus, the rover's design could be re-purposed for use onMercury, which has a comparably high surface temperature, on Jovian moonsEuropa orIo, where high radiation makes use of traditional electronics difficult, or on lava flows or highly radioactive areas on Earth. The project was first proposed in 2015, and funded by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program with a phase-I study in 2016, and a phase-II study from 2017 to 2018. | Image of the month Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon .jpg) In July of 1969,Apollo 11 successfully fulfilledJohn F. Kennedy's goal of a person landing on, and returning from, the moon before the 1970s. Taking off on 16 July, the lunar lander,Eagle, touched down on the evening of the 20th (UTC).Neil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin exited the lander six hours later, becoming the first men on the moon. The pair stayed on the lunar surface for about 21 hours. This image is actually the second of a pair of images, taken by Aldrin so that the lunar surface's ability to bear weight could be measured. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Article of the month NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is a high-resolution Earth observation satellite developed byOHB Italia for theLuxembourg Directorate of Defence as part of the Luxembourg Earth Observation System (LUXEOSys). Designed for dual-use governmental and military purposes, NAOS provides very high-resolution optical imagery for applications in defense, security, and humanitarian efforts, supporting organizations such asNATO,European Union, and theUnited Nations. The satellite was launched on August 26, 2025, aboard a SpaceXFalcon 9 rocket fromVandenberg Space Force Base, California. NAOS will be operated by LUXEOPs, consortium consisting of RHEA System Luxembourg, LUXSPACE, OHB and RHEA System. | Image of the month Apollo 15 Lunar Module  Launched on 26 July, 1971,Apollo 15 was the fourth Apollo mission to successfully land on the moon, and the first of the longer, more science-focusedJ Missions. Landing atHadley–Apennine on the 30, CommanderDavid Scott and Lunar Module PilotJames Irwin (Irwin on left) stayed on the moon's surface until 2 August, while Command Module PilotAlfred Worden stayed in orbit, collecting a variety of data on the moon. Apollo 15 was the first mission to use theLunar Roving Vehicle (on right), which allowed Scott and Irwin to travel farther from the Lunar Lander (center) than previously possible. On 4 August, the lunar orbiter departed from orbit at the end of Apollo 15's 74thlunar orbit. On the 5, Worden performed anEVA which lasted 39 minutes. This was the first of three deep-space EVAs, all performed during J Missions. The command module landed in the North Pacific Ocean on the 7, with the command module and crew being recovered byUSSOkinawa. Apollo 15 was the longest Apollo mission, lasting for a total of 12 days and 7 hours, untilApollo 17, which lasted 12 days, 13 hours, and 52 minutes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Article of the month Project POSTAR was the first space experiment created entirely by members of theBoy Scouts of America.On September 12, 1992,Space ShuttleEndeavour missionSTS-47 carried 10Get Away Special (GAS) canisters. Amongst these GAS cansisters was G-102 sponsored by theBoy Scouts of America's Exploring Division in cooperation with theTRW Systems Integration Group,Fairfax, Virginia. The project was named Project POSTAR. (The name was a combination of the words "Post" and "Star"). | Image of the month Space ShuttleEnterprise  TheSpace ShuttleEnterprise (OV-101) was the first orbiter built in theSpace Shuttle program. Designed for atmospheric test flights, it lacked both engines and a heat shield, making it unable to go to space. Rolled out on 17 September 1976, it was initially namedConstitution, but was renamed following a large letter-writing campaign fromTrekkies. Unlike itseponym, theUSSEnterprise from theoriginalStar Trek series, OV-101 never achieved spaceflight; originally intended to berefitted to become the second space-rated orbiter afterColumbia, changes to the design of the Space Shuttle made it both simpler and cheaper to instead construct a new shuttle,Challenger, around atest article. It was later considered for refitting following theChallenger disaster, but it was instead decided to build a replacement,Endeavour, out of spare parts from the construction ofDiscovery andAtlantis. Enterprise flew a total of five times, from 12 August to 26 October, 1977. It was then flown toMarshall Space Flight Center inAlabama, where it was placed into theSaturn V dynamic test stand for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing, in order to test the Space Shuttle's launch stack. It was then used for a variety of fit checks atKennedy Space Center andVandenberg Air Force Base, between which it toured Europe and North America, including a showing at the1984 Louisiana World Exposition. It was then moved to theSmithsonian Institution'sNational Air and Space Museum on 18 November 1985. It was then moved to its present location aboard theUSSIntrepid museum ship on 12 December 2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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