Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions

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WikiProject Space Missions aims to standardize articles on space missions (such as Vostok 1, Mercury-Redstone 3, and Shenzhou 5). Manned space missions are the target of this WikiProject. Please see sister project WikiProject Unmanned Space Mission for unmanned space missions.

Title

WikiProject Space Missions

Scope

WikiProject Space Missions aims to define a standard layout for articles about space missions.

Parentage

Project discussion
Space WikiProjects
Space (coordinating) templates
Astronomy
★Astronomical objects
☍Astronomy collaboration of the week
☉Constellations task force
Solar System
★Mars ★Moon
Space exploration
★Human Spaceflight★Rocketry★Space colonization★Space missions★Space travellers★Timeline of spaceflight★Unmanned space missions
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WikiProjects

Project Members Assessment
Space 17 No
Astronomy 15 Yes
Astronomical objects 49 Yes
Mars 11 Yes
Space exploration 18 Yes
Rocketry 7 No
Solar System 5 No
Space missions 25 No
Space travellers 2 No
Unmanned space missions 9 No
Timeline of spaceflight 8 No
Space Colonization 13 No
Moon 7 Yes
Human Spaceflight 1 No

Member count current as of 20 March 2007.

  • WikiProjects - Directory of Space-related WikiProjects
  • Members - Complete member lists of all Space-related WikiProjects

WikiProject Space Missions has as a parent, WikiProject Space exploration

Descendants

WikiProject Space Missions has no descendant WikiProjects.

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects include Wikipedia:WikiProject Unmanned Space Missions, WikiProject Spacecraft, Wikipedia:WikiProject Telescopes, WikiProject Ships and WikiProject Aircraft

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Structure

Three major classes of space missions exist, being country-based space exploration information (which currently exists in any primitive form, e.g. Space program of China, NASA, Canadian Space Agency), craft/program-based space exploration information (e.g. Shenzhou spacecraft, Mercury program, Vostok), individual mission information (e.g. Vostok 1, Mercury 3, and Shenzhou 5). These divisions likewise apply to uncrewed programs (e.g. Sputnik and Sputnik 1, Explorer program and Explorer 1) - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Unmanned Space Missions.

Ideally, there would thus be two differing formats, depending on whether a mission or a program is the article in question.

Please see Vostok 1, Apollo 11, etc. for good sample articles.

Space Programs

nothing yet but use footers

Space Missions

Space Missions should begin with the bolded name of the mission, followed by a simple description of the mission.

The page should be roughly divided up with several headers, in the rough following order: Crew Members, Mission Objective. Please note that this is not a hard and fast rule, but is meant for a general rule of thumb

On the right hand side should float a table containing mission insignia or logo (if applicable), mission name (again), any nicknames (for the craft itself, or call signs), Number of Crew Members, Launch date, time, and location, Landing date, time, and location, Duration, and Number of Orbits. Not all of these are necessary, and some other facts may be deemed important. In general, this box is to be used for specific information that can be quickly looked up. It should not have every last aspect of the mission however. If something is not known, the row should not appear. The exceptions to this rule are the basic information: Mission, Call Sign, Spacecraft Name, Launch, Landing, Duration, and Orbits.

On the bottom should be a table linking again to the program/spaceship.

As for other standards that do not pertain to a preferred page design:

  • Please be aware that the preferred terminology is "manned" and "unmanned"
  • Use astronaut for American spacefarers, cosmonaut for Soviet/Russian spacefarers, and yuhangyuan for Chinese spacefarers. The last name may be changed at any time as the official name still seems to be in question, and should be put up for a vote on the discussion page, but for the immediate future, use yuhangyuan (in tandem with astronaut if necessary) but NOT taikonaut.
  • Times in the table should be 24-hour UTC. Times in the text of a document should be in 12-hour local time (with UTC offset given). Any link of UTC in the table should only be done once. Years however should be linked every time.
  • Duration should have written out time words. (e.g. "1 day, 1 hour, 8 minutes", not "1 day 01:08" or "25:08")
  • Even though this can be construed as a historical project, it is also very much a scientific project, so please use only metric units in the articles.
  • Dates in the info box and in the body of the article should be wikilinked as described in the Wikipedia Manual of Style.
  • Longitude and Latitude should be in degrees, minutes, and seconds if possible, rather than in decimal format.

An example can be seen at Vostok 1 for now.

Mission Numbering for Project Mercury

Numbering the missions of the Mercury project is somewhat problematical because, in fact, the Mercury Project consisted of several subprojects, segregated primarily by launch vehicle type:

This leads to the situtation that a simple mission designation of Mercury n is ambigious, since there were both Mercury-Redstone 1, and Mercury-Atlas 1 missions, as well as Little Joe 1, and Big Joe 1. For the manned flights this ambiguity is somewhat hidden because there was no overlap in the numbering between the manned Redstone (sub-orbital) and Atlas (orbital) flights. With the sequence of the sixed manned flights being Mercury-Redstone 3; Mercury-Redstone 4; Mercury-Atlas 6; Mercury-Atlas 7; Mercury-Atlas 8, and Mercury-Atlas 9, it has become common to see writers using a shorthand notation such as Mercury 3, and Mercury 6 for the first US Manned suborbital and orbital flights respectively.

This shorthand mission numbering has been used for some time on Wikipedia, but should be deprecated due to the ambiguity. To date (June 30 2006) most or all of the old articles named with the shorthand mission numbering have been renamed, and disabiguation pages have replaced them as appropriate. Work is in progress to replace references to these pages in other articles and templates.

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Space Programs

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions/Space Programs (nothing yet) but use appropriate footer as in Space Missions template

Space Missions

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions/Space Missions or Category:WikiProject Space missions templates


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New missions actions

Each new manned space launch requires a series of changes to be made to Wikipedia:

  1. Update Mission page to past tense, with exact launch time, expected facts verified. For ISS missions, expedition page must also be updated.
  2. Update List of human spaceflights, 2000-present, List of spaceflights (2006) (etc.) and List of human spaceflights chronologically.
  3. Update List of human spaceflights by program.
  4. Update each astronaut's biography.
  5. Update Category:People currently in space by adding the category to bottom of the article on each astronaut on the mission and adding {{In space}} to the top.
  6. Update spacecraft page: If a Space Shuttle flight, update missions section of shuttle's article and List of space shuttle missions; for a Soyuz flight, update Soyuz article and possibly Soyuz programme; for Shenzhou, update Shenzhou spacecraft; for private spaceflights, both spacecraft and company articles, for example, SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites.
  7. Update "Spaceflight News" section of Portal:Spaceflight, Portal:Current events and possibly, "In the News" section of Main Page.
  8. If a flight to the ISS, update ISS Expeditions section of International Space Station (possibly expedition crew, always visitor count at bottom of that section), and List of manned spaceflights to the ISS or List of unmanned spaceflights to the ISS, as appropriate, and, after docking, List of International Space Station visitors. Also update {{Manned ISS flight}}.
  9. If a first-time astronaut is present, update total astronauts in lead of Astronaut article and check that he/she is on List of astronauts by name. Ensure biography includes correct Category:Astronauts by nationality.
  10. If a astronaut is the first from his country, update Timeline of astronauts by nationality and number of countries in Astronaut article. Update national space agency and space program articles if existing.
  11. In a few cases, Spaceflight records may need updating (most likely records - total time by country, total time top fifty space travelers, most spaceflights (currently total of 6 spaceflights by one person needed for list)) or Space disaster

Spacewalk actions

  1. Update mission infobox
  2. Update mission text (section labeled Spacewalks; new sub-section for each EVA)
  3. Update List of spacewalks
  4. If an ISS mission, update List of ISS spacewalks (almost, but not exactly the same format as List of spacewalks)
  5. Update each spacewalkers' biography page. (Should at least have total number of walks mentioned.)
  6. In a few cases, Spaceflight records may need updating or Space disaster (current records are 16 spacewalks for one person, and total spacewalk time of 77 hours, 41 minutes)

Progress

Completed

List of Articles Known to Be Currently Following the Specification:

In Progress/Needs Work

To Be Completed

future shuttle missions:

future Soyuz flights:

update future Shenzou flights as they happen:

Pages needing attention

Aerospace

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