User:WDGraham

Good Morning! I am W. D. Graham, an editor on the English Wikipedia, which is the only Wikimedia project that I regularly contribute to. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2005. I am primarily interested in spaceflight, rocketry and space science, however I also have a passing interest in aviation, military history and computer programming.
Upcoming rocket launches The next scheduled launch is of the Edoardo Amaldi ATV cargo supply vehicle on an Ariane 5 rocket. Launch from the Guiana Space Center is scheduled at 10:08 UTC on 9 March 2012. The next scheduled manned launch is of Soyuz TMA-04M on a Soyuz-FG rocket, carrying three Expedition 31 crewmembers to the International Space Station. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled at 02:58 UTC on 15 May 2012. For a full launch schedule see 2012 in spaceflight From the Spaceflight Portal - View - Talk - And the Human Spaceflight Portal - View - Talk - Spaceflight News 24 February - A Long March 3C launches Compass-G5 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. 14 February - A Proton-M/Briz-M launches the SES-4 communications satellite. 13 February - The Vega carrier rocket makes its maiden flight from ELA-1 at Kourou, deploying LARES, ALMASat-1 and seven CubeSats, including the first Hungarian, Romanian and Polish spacecraft. 3 February - A modification of the Safir rocket with a new second stage launches the Navid satellite 25 January - A Soyuz-U launches Progress M-14M to resupply the International Space Station 20 January - A Delta IV-M+(5,4) launches USA-233, the fourth WGS satellite, from Cape Canaveral 15 January - Russia's Fobos-Grunt spacecraft decays from its parking orbit following its failure to depart for Mars last year, reentering over the Pacific Ocean From the Spaceflight Portal - View - Talk - My Contributions I have made over 15,000 edits to Wikipedia. For a full list, please see my contributions. The contributions which I am most pleased with are the Timeline of spaceflight articles. I also started, and help to maintain the Spaceflight Portal. I have also contributed a number of images, which are available from Wikimedia Commons. Current Projects I am currently working on: Timeline of spaceflight Creation of articles about communications satellites Creation of articles about Progress spacecraft Creation of articles about the Scout family of rockets Creation of articles about proposed (cancelled) US and Soviet manned Lunar programmes from the 1960s I am currently drafting the following articles in my userspace: DOS (spacecraft) Manned exploration of the Moon EELV Lunar architecture If you wish to edit these drafts, please feel free. I would also appreciate feedback on them, please use their talk pages. I am open to requests to create or improve articles related to spaceflight and rocketry (about satellites and rockets, for example), as long as they comply with Wikipedia policies such as Notability. If you would like me to work on something, please . Featured request: Create NSS-11 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) — (added: 2 May 2009) Images Awards and Achievements These are my achievements, and the awards which I have received for my work. Barnstars and Awards Award From Text Date BS-AAAOriginal Barnstar DarthVader "The hard work that you have put into wikipedia, particularly your contributions to articles to do with space flight." 02006-07-28 28 July 2006 BS-AAAOriginal Barnstar Mlm42 "Thanks for your many contributions to Wikipedia, especially to the Space exploration articles.. well done!" :)" 02006-10-08 8 October 2006 BS-AAAOriginal Barnstar TheDJ "For the uncountable amount of effort that you put into keeping the space launch lists, the portal and so many articles regarding spaceflight up to date." 02009-01-26 26 January 2009 BS-COThe Copyright Cleanup Barnstar Moonriddengirl "For taking the time to write usable content for Jugnu (satellite) when the article originally in place was tagged for copyright problems." 02010-03-28 28 March 2010 BS-DILThe Barnstar of Diligence Wasted Time R "For coming into an ongoing GA review to point out some problems, which alerted me and kept me from passing an article while it still contained significant inaccuracies. Thanks!" 02011-01-01 1 January 2011 BS-EXThe Excellent User Page Award Eustress "For creating a beautiful and interesting user page. Cheers!" 02009-05-06 6 May 2009 BS-GRGraphic Designer's Barnstar J. Atkins "For all of the excellent launch vehicle SVGs you have created." 02008-08-10 10 August 2008 BS-TETechnology Barnstar Miguel Cervantes "Because every time I see GW_Simulations on the edit history, I know the page just got better" 02007-02-25 25 February 2007 BS-TETechnology Barnstar Nat682 "For your numerous major contributions to articles regarding space and technology, including, but not limited to, creating the STS-400 article" 02008-01-03 3 January 2008 BS-TIThe Tireless Contributor Barnstar MBK004 "In recognition of your quality work to not only maintain but also author new content relating to spaceflight and rocketry. Your willingness to help out when others ask is also worth recognition and something that is extremely valued." 02009-04-16 16 April 2009 BS-WHWhat a Brilliant Idea Barnstar TomStar81 "For your efforts to help improve our Black Project pages, and in particular your suggestion that we create a task force for the,, I hereby award you the What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar. If it had not been for your suggestion on the coordinator talk page a few weeks back this working group idea may never have been suggested." 02009-08-16 16 August 2009 Random Random Smiley Award TomasBat "For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general" 02007-04-04 4 April 2007 Articles Achievement Article Remarks Date Good Article Black Arrow Expanded and improved 02009-07-29 29 July 2009 Good Article Progress M1-5 Created 02009-08-05 5 August 2009 Good Article Advanced Gemini Created 02010-09-21 21 September 2010 Good Article CryoSat-2 Created 02010-09-23 23 September 2010 Did You Know? GPS IIR-1 Created 02009-06-25 25 June 2009 Did You Know? Galaxy 15 Created 02010-05-08 8 May 2010 Did You Know? CryoSat-2 Created 02010-08-04 4 August 2010 In The News Jules Verne ATV Created 02008-03-09 9 March 2008 In The News Jules Verne ATV Created 02008-04-10 10 April 2008 In The News Falcon 1 Flight 4 Created 02008-09-30 30 September 2008 In The News TerreStar-1 Created 02009-07-01 1 July 2009 In The News HTV-1 Created 02009-09-10 10 September 2009 In The News X-37B OTV-1 Created 02010-04-23 23 April 2010 In The News STSAT-2B Created 02010-06-10 10 June 2010		This user is proud to be British. 12 This user has set foot in 12 countries of the world. This user's time zone is GMT. en This user is a native speaker of English. en- us-0 This user does not understand American English and doesn't bloody well want to. UK This user uses British English. DMY This user prefers the Short Endian date format. Click here to play Chess against this user. vb-4 This user is an expert Visual Basic programmer. HTML-4 This user is an expert HTML user. asm-2 This user is an intermediate Assembly programmer. sql-2 This user is an intermediate SQL programmer. for-2 This user is an intermediate Fortran programmer. C#-1 This user is a beginning C# programmer. C++-1 This user is a beginning C++ programmer. NO This user does not support Flagged Revisions This user thinks that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic. Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain unless otherwise specified. sepa This user is a Wikipedia separatist. incr This editor is an incrementalist. vn-3 This userpage has been vandalised 3 times. This user scored 14017 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 235229822). This user is a member of WikiProject Spaceflight. This user is a member of the Mars WikiProject. XP This user uses Windows XP. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. 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