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Your submission at Articles for creation: Norio Kaifu (April 15)

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 05:41, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, NMilstein! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 05:41, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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		Thanks for your copy editing on Mike King! GrammarDamner (talk) 17:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Norio Kaifu has been accepted

Norio Kaifu, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Welcome to Project Spaceflight :)

Thank you for adding your name to our august group of Spaceflight Projecteers. :)

Let me know if you'd like guidance and/or assistance. Also, you are warmly invited to join us at our Discord (real-time chat) server.

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Thanks for the invite! I'm glad to help. NMilstein (talk) 17:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

1. Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
3. Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
4. Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
5. SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
6. Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
7. Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
8. HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

• Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
• Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
• Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
• Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
• CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
• The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D, Kingsif, Enwebb, Lee Vilenski and CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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WikiCup newsletter correction

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Hello, NMilstein. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Cosmic Magnetic Fields".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Ed White (astronaut) : Featured Article ?

Hi,

I've seen on the page Adopt an astronaut that you would work to make Ed White a Featured Article but you haven't edited it at all. Have you given up ?

Best regards,

Calvinsky (talk) 15:44, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I started work on the article several months ago, but I never got to finishing it due to time constraints. You're free to take over if you like! NMilstein (talk) 00:09, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

No, it was just to know. -- Calvinsky (talk) 17:51, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 1

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Volume 2 — Issue 1
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Soyuz MS-17 launched on 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 and docked after a "two-orbit rendezvous flight plan" to the ISS only three hours later at 08:48:47 UTC. The OSIRIS-REx probe successfully makes brief touchdown and collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu at 22:13 UTC on 20 October 2020. Expedition 63 ended on 21 October 2020, 23:32 UTC after 187 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes duration. Expedition 64 began on 21 October 2020, 23:32:00 UTC. With ISS commander: Sergey Ryzhikov, and astronauts: Kathleen Rubins & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Soyuz MS-16 landed on 22 October 2020, 02:54:12 UTC after 195 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in space.
Article of the month. John Glenn John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third person and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.	Image of the month. Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.
Members New Members: F.Alexsandr (Joined on the 8th October) Dndlp (Joined on the 18th October) Path slopu (Joined on the 23rd October) Wehwalt (Joined on the 24th October) Whoop whoop pull up (Joined on the 24th October) Josecurioso (Joined on the 29th October) Number of active members: 91. Total number of members: 295.	Article Statistics — This data reflects values from the 31 October 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 16 2 7 32 FL 4 4 8 FM 92 92 GA 11 22 36 47 116 B 1 46 37 46 130 C 55 157 513 446 5 1,176 Start 37 159 1,121 2,186 367 3,870 Stub 8 249 2,105 223 2,585 List 14 128 76 203 421 Category 1,020 1,020 Disambig 46 46 File 194 194 Portal 54 54 Project 67 67 Redirect 1,132 1,132 Template 485 485 Other 25 25 Assessed 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 595 11,459 Unassessed 54 54 Total 125 536 2,038 5,044 3,121 649 11,513 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 42,969 Ω = 4.95
October Launches — All times stated here are in UTC. Antares - NG-14 (October 2nd at 01:16:14) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L12 (October 6th at 11:29:34) Long March 3B - Gaofen 13 (October 11th at 16:57) Soyuz - ISS 63S (October 14th at 05:45:04) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L13 (October 18th at 12:25:57) Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L14 (October 22nd at 15:31:34) Soyuz - GLONASS-K (October 25th at 19:08:42) Long March 2C - Yaogan 30-07 (October 26th at 15:19) Electron - In Focus (October 28th at 21:21:27)
November Launches — Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Atlas V - NROL-101 Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 PSLV - RISAT 2BR2 Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 Delta IV Heavy - NROL-44 Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 Falcon 9 - NROL-108 Falcon 9 - SXM 7 Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & TARANIS Falcon 9 - Crew-1 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 Electron - STP-27RM LauncherOne - ELaNa-20 Angara A5 - Test Flight Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2
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WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 2

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 2
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The ISS has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then Wikipedia has existed. Crew-1 successfully launched from LC-39A on 16th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker joined Expedition 64 and the crew of MS-17 on the ISS. Arianespace had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega rocket on the 17th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
Article of the month. Apollo 12 Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.	Image of the month. This is an image of the ISS from December 9, 2000. Almost 20 years ago, this image is one of a series of 70mm frames taken onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. With the ISS being continuously occupied for the last 20 years, this shows how the space station has developed over the years.
Members New Members: Springfield2020 (Joined on the 2nd November) Helwr (Joined on the 12th November) Hportfacts5 (Joined on the 28th November) Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298. November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5th at 23:24:23) Success Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6th at 3:19) Success Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7th at 7:12) Success PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7th at 9:41 Success Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12th at 15:59:04) Success Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13th at 22:32) Success Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16th at 00:27:17) Success Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17th at 01:52:20) Failure Electron - "Return to Sender" (20th at 01:44) Success Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21st at 17:71:08) Success Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23rd at 20:30:12) Success Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25th at 02:13:12) Success H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29th at 7:25) Success December Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 Soyuz - Gonets M Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 Long March 11 - GECAM Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A Soyuz - Progress 77P Angara A5 - Test Flight Electron - The Owl's Night Begins PSLV-XL - CMS 1 Soyuz - OneWeb 4 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Long March 8 - XJY 7 Soyuz - CSO 2 Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44 Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82 Falcon 9 - NROL-108 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - SXM 7 SSLV - Demonstration Launch	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 16 2 7 32 FL 4 4 8 FM 94 94 GA 11 23 36 47 117 B 1 46 38 46 131 C 55 160 517 464 5 1,201 Start 37 158 1,125 2,204 370 3,894 Stub 8 247 2,110 225 2,590 List 14 128 77 207 426 Category 1,023 1,023 Disambig 46 46 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 63 63 Redirect 1,116 1,116 Template 491 491 Other 27 27 Assessed 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 600 11,517 Unassessed 39 39 Total 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 639 11,556 Monthly Changes Since October, 43 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There has been 2 more images which have reached FM class, both GA and B classes have 1 more article. 5 more lists have been added to the project. While 25 articles have been improved to C class as well as 24 articles reaching start class and 5 new articles added to stub class.
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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 3

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 December 2020 — 31 December 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 3
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1st, and started to gather lunar samples. The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3rd and later docked with the service module in lunar orbit. Hayabusa-2 has successfuly returned samples it collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It landed in South Australia on 5th December after a 6 year mission. SpaceX Starship SN8 completed a 12.5km flight and successfully made it back to the launch pad however was unable to slow down and hit the ground creating an impressive fireball. China becomes the third country to terurn samples from the moon. After the Chang'e-5 return capsule lands in Inner Mongolia at 01:59 local time on December 13th.
Article of the month. Mary Jackson Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NACA, which was succeeded by NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.	Image of the month. With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander being worked on by Buzz Aldrin. This mission was the first time moon samples were brought back to earth. This image was taken over 51 years ago on July 21, 1969.
Members New Members: ExoEditor (Joined on the 14th December) XFalcon2004x (Joined on the 16th December) PythosIsAwesome (Joined on the 17th December) Number of active members: 97. Total number of members: 301. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2nd at 01:33:28) Success Soyuz - Gonets-M (3rd at 01:14:36) Success Chang'e 5 (3rd at 15:10) Success Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6th at 03:58) Success Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6th at 15:17:08) Success Long March 11 - GECAM (9th at 20:14) Success Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11th at 1:09) Success Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13th at 17:20) Success Angara A5 - Test Flight (14th at 5:50:00) Success Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15th at 10:09:27) Success Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15th at 20:55) Failure PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17th at 10:11) Success Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18th at 12:26:26) Success Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19th at 14:00) Success Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22nd at 04:37:37) Success Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27th at 15:$4) Success Soyuz - CSO 2 (29th at 16:42:07) Success January Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A Falcon 9 - Transporter 1 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L17 Firefly Alpha - Dream 1 Hyperbola-1 - (Second Flight) Jielong 1 - Hainan-1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 December 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 49 119 B 1 47 37 44 129 C 55 159 518 475 7 1,214 Start 38 158 1,124 2,207 369 3,896 Stub 8 248 2,175 225 2,656 List 14 130 78 208 430 Category 1,027 1,027 Disambig 47 47 File 196 196 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,121 1,121 Template 492 492 Other 27 1 28 Assessed 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 602 11,612 Unassessed 43 43 Total 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 645 11,655 Monthly Changes Since November, 99 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 new file, with 2 more files reaching FM class. There 3 more articles have reached FA class, with an increase of 2 GA class articles. 4 more lists have been added to the project. While 13 articles have been improved to C class as well as 2 articles reaching start class and 66 new articles added to stub class.
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The Downlink – January 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 January 2021 — 31 January 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 4
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The NASA Space Launch System test-fire of the core stage on 16 January triggered a shutdown due to an hydraulic system issue. The test which was intended to last eight minutes, lasted just over one minute. Space X sets a new world record for the number of satellites launched. 143 small satellites were launched on a Falcon 9 on 24 January.
Article of the month. Pete Conrad Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.	Image of the month. This is an image of Dr. von Braun standing infront of the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
Members New Members: Tell284 (Joined on the 10th January) N828335 (Joined on the 12th January) Alpacaaviator (Joined on the 13th January) BugWarp (Joined on the 18th January) Jogesh 69 (Joined on the 23rd January) giolibreak (Joined on the 24th January) Jared.h.wood (Joined on the 25th January) Number of active members: 98. Total number of members: 308. January Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Türksat 5A (8th at 02:15) Success LauncherOne – ELaNa-20 (17th at 19:38:51) Success Long March 3B/E – Tiantong 1-03 (19th at 16:25) Success Electron (rocket) – Another One Leaves the Crust (20th at 07:26) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L16 (20th at 13:02) Success Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24th at 13:02) Success Long March 4C – Yaogan 31-02 (29th at 04:47) Success February Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos-S Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 Long March 3B/E – Tianhui-3 Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 PSLV – Amazônia 1 Antares – NG 15	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 January 2021 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 51 121 B 1 48 37 43 129 C 55 159 523 483 7 1,227 Start 38 159 1,122 2,203 371 3,893 Stub 7 245 2,175 225 2,652 List 14 131 78 209 432 Category 1,029 1,029 Disambig 47 47 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,120 1,120 Template 493 493 Other 32 32 Assessed 126 543 2,050 5,175 3,132 603 11,629 Unassessed 1 48 49 Total 126 543 2,050 5,176 3,132 651 11,678 Monthly Changes Since December, 23 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. Including 1 new file. Unfortunately there are 8 less GA class articles however there was an incrase of 13 articles at C class.
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The Downlink – March 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 February 2021 — 28 February 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 5
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Hope orbiter reached mars on 9 February 2021. Seven months after its launch on 19 July 2020. Confirmation of the Perseverance rover successfully landing on Mars was recieved at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. With the first photo from the same day.
Article of the month. Mars Pathfinder The Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, and a lightweight wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, which became the first rover to land and operate on Mars.	Image of the month. The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on Perseverance.
Members New Members: Acronymical (Joined on the 11th February) RedemptionVision (Joined on the 12th February) Yitzilitt (Joined on the 12th February) Number of active members: 100. Total number of members: 313. February Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Multi-payload (1st at 08:15) Failure Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos S1 (2st at 20:45:28) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4st at 06:19) Success Long March 3B/E – TJS 6 (4st at 15:36) Success Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P (15st at 04:45:05) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16st at 03:59:37) Success Antares 230+ – NG-15 (20st at 17:36:50) Success Long March 4C – Yaogan 31 (24st at 02:22) Success PSLV – Amazônia-1 (28st at 04:53) Success Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28st at 06:55:01) Success March Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 Long March 7A – Yanzheng 6 Firefly Alpha – DREAM 1 Electron – They Go Up So Fast Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500-1 Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 5 Jielong 1 – Hainan 1 LauncherOne – STP-27VP Long March 4C – Gaofen-12	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 28 February 2021 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 36 52 121 B 1 48 37 43 129 C 55 160 527 489 7 1,238 Start 38 158 1,121 2,208 372 3,897] Stub 7 245 2,178 225 2,655 List 14 131 79 211 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 198 198 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,122 1,123 Template 493 493 Other 39 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,193 3,148 604 11,667 Unassessed 1 54 55 Total 126 543 2,053 5,194 3,148 658 11,722 Monthly Changes Since January, 44 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and 1 file has become featured. There are 2 new files as well as 1 more C class, 4 more start class and 3 more stub class articles, with an additional 3 list articles.
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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
• Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
• Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
• Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
• The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
• Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
• Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
• Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
• Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – April 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 March 2021 — 31 March 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 6
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On March 7 the Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode after a software error was detected. And took days until the camera was fully active again. read more The Space Launch System completed a full-duration (8 minutes and 20 seconds) static fire of the core stage on March 18, after an earler test in January failed to complete the test. Featured Content The Apollo 12 article was promoted to a Featured Article on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by Wehwalt who is a significant contributor to the article.
Article of the month. Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories.	Image of the month. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
Members New Members: Bop34 (Joined on the 2nd March) Ninney (Rejoined on the 16th March) Askeuhd (Joined on the 22nd March) Ben MacTavish (Joined on the 27th March) Number of active members: 104. Total number of members: 316. March Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4th at 08:24:54) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11th at 08:13:29) Success Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11th at 17:51:28) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13th at 02:19) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14th at 10:01:26) Success Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22nd at 06:07:12) Success Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22nd at 22:30) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24th at 08:28:24) Success Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25nd at 02:47:33) Success Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30th at 22:45) Success April Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-18 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 1 Falcon 9 – Crew-2 Soyuz – OneWeb 6 Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 Long March 5B – Tianhe 1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 March 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 36 53 122 B 1 48 37 45 131 C 55 160 529 491 9 1,244 Start 38 158 1,118 2,223 374 3,911 Stub 6 245 2,185 227 2,663 List 14 130 79 211 434 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 199 199 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,123 1,124 Template 493 493 Other 37 37 Assessed 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 610 11,698 Unassessed 52 52 Total 126 542 2,052 5,220 3,148 662 11,750 Monthly Changes Since February, 28 new pages have been added to Spaceflight and Apollo 12 has been promoted to featured article! 1 more article has reached GA-class, with 1 more file, 6 more C-class, 14 more start-class and 8 new stub class articles.
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The Downlink – May 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 7
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 successfully launched from Baikonur Site 31 with Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark T. Vande Hei arriving at the ISS 3 hours later to join Expedition 64 members. April 12 marks the 60th year of human spaceflight, since Vostok 1 launched in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin onboard. April 12 also marks 40 years since the first space shuttle launch. STS-1 spent 2 days, 6 hours in space in 1981 landing on April 14. On April 16, NASA selected the SpaceX Starship Human Landing System for crewed landing on the Moon. On April 17 at 01:34 (UTC), Soyuz MS-17 departed from the ISS and landed at Kazakh Steppe over 3 hours later ending Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Kathleen Rubins mission of 184 days and 23 hours. Also on the 17th, Expedition 64 on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65. On April 19, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed the first powered flight using atmospheric lift on another planet. Earth Day came around for another year, 51 years after it was first held on April 22, 1970. On April 23 at 09:49:02 (UTC), SpaceX Crew-2 launched at LC-39A with Shane Kimbrough, K. Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet arriving at the ISS 1 day later to join Expedition 65 members. Michael Collins who was the Apollo Command Module pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90. On April 29, China launched a Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.
Article of the month. Michael Collins Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.	Image of the month. The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.
Members New Members: Anshuman~Potu~Tipu (Joined on the 1st April) DrifAssault (Joined on the 6th April) BeachFire (Joined on the 13th April) Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15th April) Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19th April) ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20th April) TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27th April) StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29th April) Number of active members: 112. Total number of members: 325. April Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7th at 16:34:18) Success Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8th at 23:01) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9th at 07:42:40) Success Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23rd at 22:14:08) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25th at 22:14:08) Success Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26th at 20:47) Success Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27th at 03:20) Success Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29th at 01:50:00) Success Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29th at 03:23:15) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29rd at 03:44) Success Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27th at 03:20) Success May Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1 Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5 Soyuz – OneWeb 7	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 18 4 7 36 FL 4 4 8 FM 97 97 GA 11 22 35 53 121 B 1 49 37 48 135 C 56 160 534 489 11 1,250 Start 37 158 1,115 2,235 373 3,918 Stub 7 244 2,191 226 2,668 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,131 1,131 Template 495 495 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 611 11,733 Unassessed 56 56 Total 126 544 2,052 5,238 3,162 667 11,789 Monthly Changes Since March, 39 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There is 1 less GA-class, with 3 more files, 4 more B-class, 6 more C-class, 7 more start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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