Wikipedia:WikiProject Human spaceflight

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Welcome to WikiProject Human spaceflight!

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide a central area for expansion and improvements to articles related to human spaceflight, i.e. humans travelling into and living in space. These articles should all be within the human spaceflight category. Through the central project and various task forces, the project will coordinate articles on space travellers, their spacecraft and their missions. The project is intended to grant good coverage to both the triumphs and failures of manned spaceflight, and to assist in the standardisation of these articles throughout the encyclopaedia. If you feel that you would like to lend a hand, your efforts would be very much appreciated!

[edit] Open Tasks

This is the WikiProject Human spaceflight/ToDo List:

Here are some open tasks:

Human spaceflight featured article candidates:

  • No current candidates

Human spaceflight articles for which peer review has been requested:

  • No current requests

To update the ToDo list, please edit the page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Human spaceflight/ToDo List

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[edit] Space travellers

One of the aims of this project is to better organise information in articles related to Space travellers (eg. Astronauts, Cosmonauts, etc). The aim is to standardise biographical articles about space travellers. All biographical articles about people who have been into space lie within its scope. Hopefully, this can be done in collaboration with WikiProject Biography.

[edit] Tasks

Check that all articles have the correct type of space traveller defined. An Astronaut is anybody who has flown on an American spacecraft. A Cosmonaut is anybody who has flown on a Russian/Soviet spacecraft. This is regardless of their own nationality, so a Russian who has flown on the Shuttle is an Astronaut, not a Cosmonaut, and an American who has flown on Soyuz is a Cosmonaut.[discuss]

[edit] Templates

[edit] Space missions

The other key aim of the project is to standardise articles on manned space missions (such as Vostok 1, Mercury-Redstone 3, and Shenzhou 5). The project aims to define a standard layout for articles about space missions.

[edit] 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/programme-based space exploration information (e.g. Shenzhou spacecraft, Mercury program, Vostok), individual mission information (e.g. Vostok 1, Mercury 3, and Shenzhou 5). Ideally, there would thus be two differing formats, depending on whether a mission or a programme is the article in question.

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

[edit] Space Programmes

Nothing yet, but use footers

[edit] 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 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, 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 programme/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"[discuss]
  • 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. [discuss]
  • 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. [discuss]
  • 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.

[edit] Progress

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Human spaceflight/Progress

[edit] Flight events

[edit] Launches

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, 2008 in spaceflight (etc.) and List of human spaceflights chronologically.
  3. Update List of human spaceflights by program.
  4. Update each crewmember's biography article.
  5. Update Category:People currently in space by adding the category to bottom of the article on each person 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 first-time space traveler is on board, confirm that he/she is on List of space travelers by name.
  10. If a space tourist is on board, update Space tourism article.
  11. If a first-time space traveller 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.
  12. If a crewmember is the first from their country, update Timeline of astronauts by nationality and number of countries in Astronaut article. Update national space agency and space programme articles if existing.
  13. In a few cases, Spaceflight records may need updating (most likely records - total time by country, total time top fifty space travellers, most spaceflights (currently total of 6 spaceflights by one person needed for list)) or Space disaster

[edit] Spacewalk

  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)

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Spaceflight and WikiProject Transport. The table below summarizes the WikiProjects related to WikiProject Space.

Project Members Assess Active
Space 37 Yes Yes
Astronomy 37 Yes Yes
Astronomical objects 62 Yes Yes
Solar System 19 Yes Yes
Mars 15 Yes Yes
Moon 13 Yes Yes
Spaceflight 39 Yes Yes
Human Spaceflight 39 No Yes
Rocketry 10 No No
Space Colonization 18 No Yes
Timeline of spaceflight 10 No Yes
Unmanned space missions 12 No No

As of 4 February 2008

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

[edit] Related Wikiprojects

WikiProjects related to Human spaceflight include, WikiProject Ships, WikiProject Aircraft and WikiProject Rocketry, along with the Space colonisation and Timeline of spaceflight WikiProjects.

[edit] Related Sisterprojects

[edit] Participants

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  1. John Kavanagh
  2. Colds7ream - Working on space station articles and related pages.
  3. Sdsds
  4. Chris H - Working on adding citations from wikisource
  5. ArielGold - Work on Shuttle missions, providing as-it-happens coverage. Condense/improve past mission articles.
  6. Jatkins - Mainly work on Apollo program, as well as (minor) edits to Shuttle missions, and occasionally editing Astronaut/Cosmonaut bios. Hope to contribute more about the ISS.
  7. Ageekgal - Haven't done much yet, but it's on my radar. :)
  8. Rocketmaniac - Will work on any area, but I enjoy Shuttle missions and Astronauts.
  9. Munion - I've been doing hundreds of edits, so I suppose I'm a member. I'm working on formatting out spaceflight articles consistently right now...later on, hoping to start cleaning them up and fact-checking.
  10. GW_Simulations (talk · contribs)
  11. Pacvenn (talk · contribs)
  12. Pipian
  13. Fuzheado
  14. Andy
  15. rlandmann
  16. enceladus
  17. rmhermen
  18. Audin
  19. Ke4roh
  20. Theon
  21. Rusty
  22. Jdhowens90
  23. siafu
  24. Chuck
  25. Jmclark911
  26. Rick
  27. Exodio
  28. 3Idiot
  29. Nick Mks
  30. Mlm42
  31. BuffaloChip97
  32. Turbinator (talk)
  33. Srain (talk)
  34. Mrld
  35. Maurice27
  36. Darry2385
  37. Rillian (talk · contribs)
  38. JeremyWheat (talk · contribs)
  39. gladtohelp - Looking forward to getting involved in this. I have on-again-off-again NASA media credentials and have interviewed a large number of astronauts and test pilots over the years. I have an extensive reference library.

[edit] transclusion: edit normally Transclusion: Space Mission Templates

[edit] Space Programmes

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

[edit] Space Missions

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


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[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Aerospace