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T_T Okay, who wrote this article? They need to be beaned off the head. There is already an elementary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland named after her. It opened in 1992, current Principal is Dr. Roy Settles.
I SHOULD KNOW. I was in the FIRST kindergarten class as the school, I played on the construction area, I drove past it almost every day of my life. —Preceding
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Towson (
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I plan to record a spoken version of the article soon. Can someone please moderate the Nichelle Nichols content dispute? It looks like it was properly sourced to a 2014 NASA archives article, but someone removed it. I don't know the protocol.
0101Abc (
talk)
15:43, 5 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Nichelle Nichols was hired as part of the publicity campaign for
NASA Astronaut Group 8 but Resnik was not recruited by Nichols; this is a misunderstanding. (It was sourced to Space.com, not NASA.) So I removed it. I have
Sally Ride up for review at FAC; you might consider that article too.
Hawkeye7(discuss)22:30, 5 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Second space flight?
"Her second space flight was mission STS-51-L in January 1986 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. She died when it broke up shortly after liftoff."
This seems unsatisfactory; Challenger peaked at about 65 000 feet, which isn't even close to anybody's definition of space. What improvements can be made here?
John (
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09:16, 13 August 2022 (UTC)reply
From the lede She died when it broke up shortly after liftoff. This may not be entirely correct as there is some evidence that Resnick survived the Challenger breakup, as discussed later in the article. She may have survived breakup and died when the crew compartment impacted the ocean. I don't think anyone knows definitively when the crew died. ☆ Bri (
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16:11, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Yeah that's the problem. Saying "shortly after the craft broke up" is probably better than "when the craft broke up", since we don't know.
Here is a reliable source published last year stating explicitly "it is possible that Resnik and other members of the crew survived the initial breakup, contained in the more structurally robust crew cabin of the orbiter, and died on impact with the ocean." ☆ Bri (
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18:20, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
But "shortly after the craft broke up" could be interpreted to indicate simple chronology, not causation. She didn't just die after the craft broke up, she died because the craft broke up. --
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18:42, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply