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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Hi XFalcon2004x! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 20:26, Saturday, November 28, 2020 (UTC)

Welcome!

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Welcome!

Hello, XFalcon2004x, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Rosbif73 (talk) 13:45, 7 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Project Spaceflight!

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The SPFLT Achievement Patch
For your contributions to Project Spaceflight. Neopeius (talk) 17:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply


Welcome aboard! I hope I can entice you to join our team working on spaceflight in the 60s. :) --Neopeius (talk) 17:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply


MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 26 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 31 March 2026

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2026
1 31 March
Volume 4 Issue 3
Spaceflight Project  Project discussion  Members  Assessment  Open tasks  Popular pages  The Downlink
In the News
  • On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs.
  • ESA launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle.
  • China's Qingzhou cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.
Article of the month

OTV-2 (also known as USA-226) was the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 5 March 2011, and landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base on 16 June 2012. It operated in low Earth orbit. Its USA-226 mission designation is part of the USA series.

The spaceplane was operated by Air Force Space Command, which has not revealed the specific identity of the payload for the first flight. The Air Force stated only that the spacecraft would "demonstrate various experiments and allow satellite sensors, subsystems, components, and associated technology to be transported into space and back."

Image of the month
STS-1

STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times. Columbia carried a crew of two—commander John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen. It was the first American crewed space flight since the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in 1975. STS-1 was also the maiden test flight of a new American spacecraft to carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing (ALT) of the orbiter and ground testing of the Space Shuttle system.

The launch occurred on the 20th anniversary of Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight, performed by Yuri Gagarin for the USSR. This was a coincidence rather than a celebration of the anniversary; a technical problem had prevented STS-1 from launching two days earlier, as was planned.

Members

New Members: Swedmark111 (26 March)

Number of active members: 220. Total number of members: 447.

March Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here.


  1. United States Alpha Block 1 — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) (success)
  2. Russia Soyuz-2.1aProgress MS-33 (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) (success)
  3. United StatesEuropean Union Rocket Lab ElectronCeleste IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) (success)
  4. China Kinetica 2 — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) (success)
Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 31 March 2026.

Monthly Changes

Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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Newsletter contributors: Ships&Space

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2026
1 30 April
Volume 4 Issue 4
Spaceflight Project  Project discussion  Members  Assessment  Open tasks  Popular pages  The Downlink
In the News
  • Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. Integrity, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego on the 11th.
  • On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.
Featured Content

The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking" was promoted to Featured Media status on 30 April. It was nominated by Moonreach.

Article of the month

The Gallaudet Eleven were a group of eleven deaf men recruited in the late 1950s and 1960s to participate in a joint research program led by NASA and the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine (later changed to Aerospace Medical Association) to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. They were selected for participation in the study because damage they had sustained to the vestibular systems of their inner ears had granted them immunity to motion sickness, making them uniquely resilient to certain physical studies that would have made other test subjects nauseous.

Image of the month
Clayton Anderson under weightlessness

A demonstration of weightlessness by astronaut Clayton Anderson, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 225. Total number of members: 454.

April Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list .


  1. United StatesArgentinaSouth KoreaSaudi ArabiaGermany Space Launch System Block 1 — various, including Artemis II (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) (success)
  2. China Tianlong-3unknown (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) (launch failure)
  3. United States New GlennBlueBird 7 (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) (launch failure)
  4. United States Falcon 9 Block 5USA-585 (21 Apr. 06:53:00) (success)
Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 30 April 2026.

Monthly Changes

Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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Newsletter contributors: Ships&Space

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:22, 31 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2026
1 31 May
Volume 4 Issue 5
Spaceflight Project  Project discussion  Members  Assessment  Open tasks  Popular pages  The Downlink
In the News
Article of the month
Polyus on the Energia rocket

The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser. It had a Functional Cargo Block derived from a TKS spacecraft to control its orbit and it could launch test targets to demonstrate the fire control system.

Image of the month
Integrated Truss Structure of the ISS

This graphic is an exploded view of the Integrated Truss Structure, the long segment that has the ISS' distinctive solar panels. The first piece, Z1, was installed in October 2000, while the most recent addition, S6, being installed in October 2007; the current configuration of the ITS dates to June 2023. In addition to providing electricity via the solar panels, the ITS is the location of energy storage, with battery assemblies on the P4/6 and S4/6 segments. These each consist of 24 lithium-ion batteries, for a total of 96 batteries.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 230. Total number of members: 460.

May Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here.


  1. China Zhuque-2EDingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe (14 May at 03:00:00) (success)
  2. ItalyChinaEuropean Union Vega CSMILE
Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 31 May 2026.

Monthly Changes

Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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Newsletter contributors: Ships&Space

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:28, 11 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

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The Signpost: 13 July 2026

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2026
1 30 June
Volume 4 Issue 6
Spaceflight Project  Project discussion  Members  Assessment  Open tasks  Popular pages  The Downlink
In the News
Article of the month
A last-quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member.

Expedition 24 was the 24th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 24 initially had two planned spacewalks, one Russian and one American Extra-vehicular Activity (EVA). The U.S. EVA was re-planned and a second U.S. EVA was added.

Image of the month
NASA spacecraft comparison

This graphic, created c. 1964, compares the relative sizes of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (right, bottom-to-top). Each successive craft is larger and has a greater crew capacity than the previous; additionally, while the Mercury and Gemini craft are fairly similar, the Apollo craft (actually two craft, the Apollo command and service module and Apollo Lunar Module) is substantially different: the reentry module is more conical, and has a much large thruster. These changes, and the lunar lander, are present because Apollo was the first crewed missions to the moon, with the changes necessary to ensure that the crew could return to Earth alive. A similar pattern can be found in the comparison of the launch vehicles on the left: while the Mercury (Atlas-D) and Gemini (Titan II) vehicles are similar in size, differing primarily in height, the Apollo vehicle, the Saturn V, is significantly larger, both for the need to transport the CSM and LEM, but also in order to get to the Moon in the first place.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 232. Total number of members: 463.

June Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list Here.


  1. China Long March 12B — 2 Qianfan satellites (1 Jun. at 08:40:00) (success)
  2. JapanFrance H3-30Svarious (12 Jun. at 00:53:59) (success)
  3. China Long March 3B/E — Shijian-31 (16 Jun. at 09:45:00) (success)
Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 30 June 2026.

Monthly Changes

Since May 2026, there are one more Mid-importance, 12 more Low-importance, ten fewer NA-importance, and six more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of nine new articles. There are also four more GA-class, seven more B-class, five more C-class, five more Start-class, three more Stub-class articles, and two more lists.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:07, 29 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

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