Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink/2021/May

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 8

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

In the News!

The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2^nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space.
A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4^th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean.
One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure.
Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14^th May.

Featured Content

The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021.
The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius & Hawkeye7.
The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.

Article of the month.

Katherine Johnson

Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".

Image of the month.

Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.

Members

New Members:

NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13^th May)
LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13^th May)
Dulliman (Joined on the 22^nd May)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29^th May)

Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329.

May Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4^th at 19:01:07) Success
Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6^th at 18:11) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9^th at 06:42) Success
Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15^th at 11:11) Failure
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15^th at 22:56) Success
Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18^th at 17:37) Success
Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19^th at 04:03) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26^th at 18:59) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28^th at 17:38:39) Success
Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29^th at 12:55:29) Success

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

Long March 3B/E – Fengyun 4B
Falcon 9 – CRS-22
Falcon 9 – SXM 8
Minotaur 1 – NROL-111
Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05
Atlas 5 – STP 3
Soyuz-2.1a – Progress MS-17
Long March 2F – Shenzhou 12
GSLV Mk.II – GISAT 1
Falcon 9 – Transporter 2

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021.

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	19	4	7			37
FL			4	4			8
FM					98		98
GA	11	22	35	54			122
B	2	48	38	49			137
C	55	159	536	497	1	10	1,258
Start	37	158	1,112	2,238		372	3,917
Stub		7	245	2,190		231	2,673
List	14	130	79	211		1	435
Category					1,034		1,034
Disambig					48		48
File					202		202
Portal					55		55
Project					57		57
Redirect				1	1,133	1	1,135
Template					501		501
Other				1	38		39
Assessed	126	543	2,053	5,252	3,173	615	11,762
Unassessed					1	71	72
Total	126	543	2,053	5,252	3,174	686	11,834

Monthly Changes

Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.

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