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Anna Menon[edit]

Redirecting a woman astronaut to her husband astronaut entry is really something hard to find acceptable nowadays. Even more since she is supposed to fly before him. Hektor (talk) 15:55, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The French Wikipedia already did her bio: Anna Menon. Erick Soares3 (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I assumed this was a mistake and was confusing due to their similar names so have removed the links from her name to him to avoid confusion. I propose we do not link to her husband and wait until she gets a page of her own. Hopefully someone translates that article soon.

101.98.135.42 (talk) 22:49, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Would also be nice to discuss about the "space tourism" definition: while Inspiration4 was more focused (even if it was PR) on regular people, the Polaris program seems to be a technological development program (something more complex than a mere "joy ride"). I also question about considering Soyuz MS-19 as space tourism, since the movie crew weren't the first employers from a private company to fly (the first one was Charles D. Walker, STS-41-D). Erick Soares3 (talk) 10:27, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should just avoid the term here and lay out the facts. That it is a private mission with little government support operating both for charity and for advancing science and technology. Tourist carry’s connotations that I don’t think we should be adding on. Let the reader decide. 101.98.135.42 (talk) 22:47, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fair! Erick Soares3 (talk) 10:25, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Anna Menon's Picture[edit]

We must be able to get a better picture than that blurry stretched thing we have right now. Surely there are some pictures of Menon from the Polaris twitter updates or other mission outreach materiel that's in the public domain? Largely Legible Layman (talk) 05:17, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Largely Legible Layman: unfortunately, the Polaris team isn't releasing a thing on PD (as an example, it took about 6 months after the Inspiration4 launch and landing before we saw a NASA image from the crew). Maybe if anyone has the patience, it would be possible to track better images from NASA materials... Erick Soares3 (talk) 10:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Use dates that are not US centric[edit]

Please do not use phrases like "The launch date is Summer 2024." Not everyone who reads Wikipedia is located in the USA. Stick to months. You may consider that an order. ;-) blucat David — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.51.24 (talk) 09:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]