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[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

The article was rate B article. It could use more information about his Navy and NASA career. His priority is high, because he shares the honor of being first person to leave the Earth's influence along with the rest of the crew of Apollo 8-- Abebenjoe 04:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Record?

"It is also possible that he holds the record (with his Apollo 13 crewmates) for farthest distance a human has travelled from Earth.[citation needed]"

How is this a record distance? Moon landing flights orbited the moon many times; 13 only once.

trezjr 12:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

He's talking about the furthest distance away from earth, not total distance traveled. As to whether it's true in 13's case, I don't know. Rlevse 12:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

See the Apollo 13 article for more on this. The Guinness Book of World Records Records counts them as having gone farthest from the Earth. While it is known that their loop behind the moon was the farthest beyond the moon, the issue that the Moon's distance from the Earth varies by more than the greater orbital height gives some question to this... Naraht 12:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] record

then it's not a fact worthy of being in the article, is it?

trezjr 12:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't say that, but I'm not overly worried about if it is or isn't in the article. But I do agree it needs a cite. As to why the bio people haven't rated it, I don't know. I'm with the Scouting project and we've rated it. With a little work, it'd be an easy Good Article vice B article. Rlevse 12:17, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

i can submit it; takes 1 minute. do you want to work on it some more first? a "b" is given to almost everything; working for '"a" is much harder. i've only gotten 1; there's only a handful. go to: Category:A-Class biography (arts and entertainment) articles. trezjr 12:27, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Look at recent FAs and you'll see what it needs. A good lead that summarizes the article is one thing. I'll work on it over the next few days a bit. You don't need a new section for every reply on the talk page either.Rlevse 12:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)