Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink/2021/August

• On 12^th August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles).
• On 20^th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station.
• On 28^th August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.

Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.

Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

New Members:

• Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21^st August)

August Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

1. Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3^rd at 07:39) Failure
2. Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4^th at 11:01) Success
3. Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5^th at 16:30:05) Success
4. Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10^th at 22:01:05) Success
5. GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12^th at 00:13) Failure
6. Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17^th at 01:47:06) Success
7. Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18^th at 22:32) Success
8. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21^st at 22:13:40) Success
9. Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24^th at 11:15) Success
10. Long March 3B/E – TJS-7 (24^th at 15:41) Success
11. Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28^th at 22:35) Failure
12. Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29^th at 07:14:49) Success

September Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

• Firefly Alpha – DREAM
• Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02
• Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B
• Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F)
• Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A
• Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10
• Falcon 9 – Inspiration4
• Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F
• Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3
• Atlas V – Landsat 9
• Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D
• Electron – BlackSky
• Falcon 9 – Starlink
• Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1)
• PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A)
• Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	19	5	7			38
FL		1	4	4			9
FM					102		102
GA	10	24	34	54			122
B	4	48	41	53			146
C	57	160	546	530			1,293
Start	34	157	1,106	2,262		374	3,933
Stub		9	244	2,197	1	234	2,685
List	14	124	79	225		1	443
Category					1,033		1,033
Disambig				1	49		50
File					206		206
Portal					55		55
Project					58		58
Redirect		2			1,140		1,142
Template					504		504
Other					22		22
Assessed	126	544	2,059	5,333	3,170	609	11,841
Unassessed						53	53
Total	126	544	2,059	5,333	3,170	662	11,894

Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.

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