Talk:Great Observatories program

Spaceflight High‑importance

	Spaceflight portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Spaceflight, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of spaceflight on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SpaceflightWikipedia:WikiProject SpaceflightTemplate:WikiProject Spaceflightspaceflight articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Astronomy Mid‑importance

	Astronomy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astronomy, which collaborates on articles related to Astronomy on Wikipedia.AstronomyWikipedia:WikiProject AstronomyTemplate:WikiProject AstronomyAstronomy articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States Start‑class Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Start	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Future observatories[edit]

I removed references to follow-up/future "Great Observatories," as I don't believe they technically are. I'll poke around and find a better place to put them. 24.17.30.163 02:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NASA's follow-up Great Observatories program.

* James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) before being named, and is the replacement for HST.
* Space Interferometry Mission (SIM)
* Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)

Some future Great Observatories designated probes are involved in the Beyond Einstein program
* Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravity-wave observatory consisting of a trio of probes in controlled separation solar orbit, slated for 2013
* Constellation-X, a constellation of X-ray telescopes flying in formation to form an interferometer, at L2, slated for 2016

challenger?[edit]

Just passing by, but this article also mentions that Spitzer was not launched by Shuttle because of Challenger. I believe this should be change to the Columbia accident, which occured in Febuary of 2003, the same year Spitzer was launched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.242.206 (talk • contribs)

No, since these observatories and their launches are planned years in advance, it was indeed the Challenger incident that affected Spitzer's choice of launch vehicle. --Etacar11 12:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

0.5 nom[edit]

This article was nominated for Wikipedia 0.5, but I failed it because of having no references, rather poor prose, short lead per WP:LEAD and other concerns. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 22:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grammatical error[edit]

"Parts which survived reentry splashed into the Pacific Ocean." Should read "Parts that survived ..."

See http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/which.htm discussion of restrictive clauses.

DaveCrane (talk) 21:18, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced and doubtable fact[edit]

In top paragraph: *The four missions was designed to examine a specific region of the electromagnetic spectrum using very different technologies. Dr. Charles Pellerin, NASA's Director, Astrophysics invented and developed the program during 1994.* As Hubble was launched in 1990, it seems not possible that the program was conceived *after* the first launch. A reference and further clarification is needed.

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Great Observatories program. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071209094039/http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/video/shuttle/sts-93/html/fd0.html to http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/video/shuttle/sts-93/html/fd0.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:42, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]