Welcome to WikiProject Spaceflight's template list; here you will find the actions to take on various articles related to spaceflight, in addition to tasks which should be taken upon, for instance, the launch of a spaceflight and following a spacewalk.
If a space tourist is on board, update Space tourism.
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.
In a few cases, Spaceflight records may need updating (most likely records - total time by country, total time top fifty space travellers or most spaceflights, for which currently a total of 6 spaceflights by one person is needed for the list)) or Space disaster.
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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. This is being done in collaboration with the Aerospace biography task force of WikiProject Aviation.
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]
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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.
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:
Per MOS:GNL, preferred terminology is "crewed", "human", "piloted", etc. rather than "manned" and "unmanned"
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.
