Talk:Landings on other planets

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[edit] Merging with List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces

This article should not be merged with the List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces because many landings do not leave all "artificial objects" taken with them for the landing. Indeed, all of the Lunar landings have left parts of the lander behind but to get the astronauts home large parts of the "artificial objects" taken with them have to return to Earth. Therefore there would be a discrepancy between the actual landings and the list of artificial objets; i.e. the list of artificial objects is semi-independent to the landings, as each landing mission can leave many or few objects on the surface, and all such manned missions brought peices of the landing equipment back with them.

Manned landings take some of the artificial ojects back to Earth with them, can I stress this enough?

Leave the pages as they are I say.

The only thing that should be changed is the title of the article "Landings on other planets". When did the Moon become a planet? When, eventually, a spacecraft lands on a comet (e.g. the Rosetta mission) or a Kuiper Belt object, are they to be listed in the article titled "Landings on other planets" too? If they are, they shouldn't be. The distintion between planets and other Solar System bodies is well docmuented (e.g. recall the recent change of Pluto's status from planet to dwarf planet).

How about changing the title to "Landings on Solar System bodies" or something similar?

121.44.244.188 05:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge notice has been here for a long time. Discussion on both articles say each one ought to stay. So seems no compelling reason or rush to merge them, so have removed notices from both pages.
- CharlesC 19:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EU flag for ESA missions

The ESA is not an EU organization, so using the EU flag for ESA missions is misleading. (sdsds - talk) 04:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] column heading "country" should be changed to "agency"

We should change the column header from country to "agency" as more and more missions may include participation of the ESA which is not affiliated with any single country or any association of countries it is an independent association of the efforts of multiple countries. We could keep some country flags but the name of the actual agency should replace the name of the country. The EU flags should probably be replaced with the ESA logo or something unless the ESA turns itself over to EU control.Zebulin 17:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)