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Is necessary mention root of the space shuttle?[edit]
Alought Historical background mentioned the history, not mentioned the root of the space shuttle, silbervogel. Is necessary to add it? Berkeley8 (talk) 20:33, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Space Shuttle Astronaut Qualifications[edit]
Within this article, there's no description about the requirements to be a space shuttle crew. If there's one, I think it would help readers understand the rigorous selection process and training that astronauts undergo to become part of a Space Shuttle mission. I'm thinking about adding these two links with some explanation for each of them: [1][2]. What do you think? Moonlight6928 (talk) 14:37, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
An extension to the support vehicle: An-225[edit]
Support Vehicle, there isn't any mention about An-225, so we want to add some pieces of information about how An-225 supports space shuttles and briefly introduce now the status of An-225. I am going to refer to these two links: Antonov An-225 Mriya [3]
Please comment on if there is any concerns regarding my plan of changes. Thanks! Sir.Deai Bian (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- The An-225 was designed and used as support vehicle in the Russian Buran program, as linked in See also. I don't see any reason to feature it prominently here. --Zac67 (talk) 14:09, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- The An-225 is related (or connected) to Buran (spacecraft), not the US Space Shuttle. -Fnlayson (talk) 03:43, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings, I am from Chinese wiki. When editing the Chinese pages related to space shuttles, I find the pages quite unorganized, and have some questions that could be better answered by the English community.
- What is the relationship between Space Shuttle program and Space Transportation System?
- Did the STS become the space shuttle program, or are they separate
- Can they be treated as the same thing or put under one page (there was a Chinese page about STS that was not a Chinese version of the Space Transportation System, it only contained information about the space shuttle, and I merged it into the Chinese Space Shuttle program page, a Chinese version of the STS page never existed)
- When referring to names like Atlantis and OV-104, do they refer to a space shuttle or a space shuttle orbiter?
- When linking from other pages, when do you link to space shuttle and when to space shuttle orbiter?
- Is it correct to say that
- a space shuttle is a spacecraft system, not a spacecraft nor a spaceplane
- a space shuttle orbiter is a spacecraft, spaceplane, and part of a space shuttle
Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 08:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)