Template:Did you know nominations/Falcon 9 booster B1029

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:11, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Falcon 9 booster B1029[edit]

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Rocket stage B1029 landed at night on a drone ship

... that Falcon 9 booster B1029 (pictured) is the only reusable rocket that was launched from both coasts of the United States? Source: SpaceX Falcon 9 success with second flight involving BulgariaSat-1 mission[1]
- ALT1:... that the second reused orbital rocket in history, Falcon 9 booster B1029 (pictured), was "extra toasty" upon coming back from the edge of space on June 23, 2017 to land on a drone ship? Source: "Rocket is extra toasty and hit the deck hard (used almost all of the emergency crush core), but otherwise good" – Elon Musk on Twitter[2]
- ALT2:... that Falcon 9 booster B1029 (pictured) was the second orbital-class rocket in history to be flown again after landing vertically on a drone ship, only 12 weeks after her sister B1021 was the first? Source: SpaceX Falcon 9 success with second flight involving BulgariaSat-1 mission[3]

Reviewed: Trump Tower (novel)
Comment: I much prefer the "extra toasty" ALT1 hook, personally, but I wanted to give reviewers a more serious version for consideration as well.

Created by JFG (talk). Self-nominated at 17:09, 25 June 2017 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Aside from one broken link, this article is good to go, I believe. It doesn't appear to have been captured by the Internet Archive, due to robots.txt, and I'm not finding a suitable replacement source for it. Other than this minor issue, congratulations on the good work, JFG! (Also, I personally prefer the first hook given, but I'd be fine with ALT1, especially considering your strong preference for it.) Michael Barera (talk) 04:09, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

@Michael Barera: I have replaced the dead link at NZ Herald with the original AP writeup. Thanks for the glowing review! — JFG ^talk 04:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

In addition to being extra toasty, ALT1 features an educational link about the Kármán line defining the boundary to outer space; thus readers can learn much more than the exploits of this individual rocket. — JFG ^talk 13:40, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, JFG! Everything looks good to go to me. I'm fine with ALT1 so long as "extra toasty" is in quotation marks, as it is now. Thanks again for your hard work on this article! Michael Barera (talk) 01:52, 13 July 2017 (UTC)