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Earliest born female suborbital in the Age section redundant

The entry for Wally Funk's flight on NS-16 seems to be redundant (or if not that, then meaningless), since Valentina Tereshkova flew an orbital flight (Vostok 6) about six decades earlier, and was born almost two years before Wally. A suborbital flight record is only meaningful as a stepping stone, when an orbital flight of the same nature has not already been achieved. 74.83.1.69 (talk) 04:34, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Crew Transfer

Would it be justifiable to have two Crew Transfer records? The first would be between two occupied crewed spacecraft via spacewalk (Soyuz 4 and 5). The second would be using a docking tunnel between two docked crew-capable spacecraft (Apollo 9).

Apollo 9 was also the first time astronauts spent time in a crewed spacecraft not designed to enter Earth's atmosphere while not being docked to a vehicle designed to do so. AmigaClone (talk) 05:10, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect attribution of Walter Villadei to ESA

For the section "Total human spaceflight time by country" it appears that Walter Villadei's time is counted for ESA, even though he is not actually representing ESA. 213.89.117.57 (talk) 16:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The ESA identifier is meant to just be anyone from ESA member nations, not specifically ESA astronauts. I've always been concerned about this, but the source of data (spacefacts.de) does not track those details in a way that we can measure. Also, in some cases an astronaut can go up as an ESA astronaut, and in other cases they may go privately (there is at least one case of this possibly happening). My suggestion is we either remove the ESA designation altogether, or we put a note saying that the data is from astronauts from ESA states, but not necessarily ESA astronauts. Andrewpullin (talk) 00:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does Space Shuttle Orbiter not count as "stage"?

Multiple records are counted by Falcon 9 as "rocket stage" that are exceeded/preceded by the Space Shuttle Orbiter. Ehurtley (talk) 21:24, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the "First re-flight of an orbital class rocket stage" I added "after a vertical propulsive landing".

Likewise, on the "Most flights, and landings, of a single orbital rocket stage: 24." I added the word "vertical" before the word landings.

Note that in both cases the rocket stage in question was uncrewed - unlike the shuttle which landed with horizontally with it's crew 133 out of 135 attempts. AmigaClone (talk) 21:01, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]