Talk:List of extraterrestrial orbiters

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What is the point of this list? Why is it important that we list the manned spacecraft that orbited the moon? Is there a manned spacecraft that did not orbit the moon? § FreeRangeFrog croak 04:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, it can fill the gap between Earth satellite lists and Category:Artificial satellites in Lunar orbit. As for your question, Apollo 13, unless you want to count circumlunar flights. Fotaun (talk) 04:14, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I say we merge list of lunar probes here. Satellizer  talk  contribs 00:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * A section in the list of lunar probes is probably indicated. I just don't see the point of having a list that is "justified" because a single one out of a series of spacecraft did not orbit the moon - otherwise they all did. And unless China or the EU are getting ready to land on old Luna, that's not going to change any time soon. § FreeRangeFrog croak 01:04, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Something needs to be clarified here: its not one mission, but all the human missions omitted from list of lunar probes. Its really the wrong focus though, this is about orbiting something. Fotaun (talk) 05:24, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I propose that we merge this, list of lunar probes and list of current and future lunar missions into a single article at List of missions to the Moon, to correspond with list of missions to Mars. This provides an unambiguous title to cover both manned and unmanned missions, and allows us to eliminate the unnecessary duplication (and in cases, triplication) of information. Additionally it avoids worrying about the somewhat transient nature of LCFLM. -- W.  D.   Graham  10:01, 3 January 2013 (UTC)