Talk:Space Shuttle/Balon Greyjoy to do

I made a talk subpage to track my improvements to the article as I focus on doing a rewrite. I am intending to improve this article and get it up to GA (hopefully FA) status.

1. Lead: I plan on trimming down some of the excessive info in the lead section. The first paragraph I intend to leave as-is (minus some wording changes). I want to reduce the excessive details about the launch and orbit sequence in the second paragraph, as that is covered down below. I will leave the third paragraph mostly unchanged, but will reword certain sentences.

2. Overview: This section needs to be too much of a catch-all for info about the shuttle. As much of the described information is included below, such as the development history, launch sequence, landing sequences. I propose removing this section and putting the relevant info and citations in later sections.
 * ✅ Deleted and merged.

3. Early history: I intend to clean this section up, but I will leave it to talk about the political motivations and previous attempts that led to the shuttle.
 * Rename to "Initial design process" ✅
 * Rename to "Historical background" and split section to include pre-shuttle design


 * Include early reusable vehicle devlepment ✅
 * Discuss lifting body research
 * Explain political push for space shuttle TThis belongs under Space Shuttle program
 * Discuss the initial intentions of space shuttle capabilities✅
 * Discuss initial creation of design ✅

4. Development (proposed section): Have a new section that describes the development process for the specifications and building of the shuttle
 * Discuss construction of space shuttle ✅
 * Discuss any major issues with space shuttle building ✅
 * Discuss development of its testing plan ✅

5. Spacecraft (Replacement for "Description" section): Remove the history and development info from the section, and have sub sections that physically describe the orbiter, external tank, and solid rocket boosters. I will have sub-sub sections for the orbiter to describe various components, such as the flight control, payload bay, upgrades, etc. I will close the section with the "Specifications" sub-section already in place.
 * Remove/relocate history/developement info from section
 * Create major component sub-sections ✅
 * Create sub-sub sections for orbit (cockpit, middeck, payload bay, engines). Integrate any sort of upgrades into those sections
 * Crew compartment
 * Space Shuttle Main Engine
 * Cargo bay
 * OMS
 * Thermal Protection System
 * Remove "Orbiter markings and insignia" ✅

6. Mission profile: I intend to keep the sub-section headers in this, although I will move the post-landing processing section and include the landing site information in the launch sequence (for abort sites) and landing section (for potential landing sites).

7. Flight history (replacement for some of fleet history). I will include the graphic of shuttle missions, as well as the table of major milestones, and the disasters section. I would like to include a sub section for major mission sets, most notably the deployment and repair of Hubble, and building the ISS.

8. Retirement (new-ish section): Discuss the causes that led to the shuttle's retirement. I will then include where all of the shuttles were transported, as well as additional hardware.

9. Successors and legacy: I plan to remove this section. I think this info is more appropriate for the page on the Space Shuttle program, especially considering that the successor never came to fruition.
 * Remove section ✅

10. In popular culture: I would like to clean up this section. I will include as much of the existing information, but will ensure that everything is properly cited. I will remove the sub-section header for the postage stamp release.
 * Remove extraneous examples
 * Combine postage stamp sub-section with section ✅