Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/template list

Welcome to WikiProject Spaceflight's template list; here you will find the actions to take on various articles related to spaceflight, in addition to tasks which should be taken upon, for instance, the launch of a spaceflight and following a spacewalk.

Launches
Each new crewed space launch requires a series of changes to be made to Wikipedia:
 * 1) Update Mission page to present tense, with exact launch time, expected facts verified. For ISS missions, expedition page must also be updated.
 * 2) Update List of human spaceflights, 2000-present, 2024 in spaceflight (etc.) and List of human spaceflights.
 * 3) Update each crewmember's biography article.
 * 4) Update People currently in space, add it and current to each astronaut's biography article.
 * 5) Update spacecraft page: If a Space Shuttle flight, update missions section of shuttle's article and List of space shuttle missions; for a Soyuz flight, update Soyuz article and possibly Soyuz programme; for Shenzhou, update Shenzhou spacecraft; for private spaceflights, both spacecraft and company articles, for example, SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites.
 * 6) Update "Spaceflight News" section of Portal:Spaceflight, Portal:Current events and, possibly, the "In the News" section of the Main Page.
 * 7) If a flight to the ISS, update List of human spaceflights to the ISS or Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station as appropriate, and, after docking, List of International Space Station visitors and International Space Station. Also update Crewed ISS flights.
 * 8) If first-time space traveller is on board, confirm that he or she is on the List of space travellers by name, update total astronauts in lead of Astronaut article and ensure biography includes correct Category:Astronauts by nationality.
 * 9) If a space tourist is on board, update Space tourism.
 * 10) If a crewmember is the first from their country, update Timeline of astronauts by nationality and number of countries in Astronaut article. Update national space agency and space programme articles if existing.
 * 11) In a few cases, Spaceflight records may need updating (most likely records - total time by country, total time top fifty space travellers or most spaceflights, for which currently a total of 6 spaceflights by one person is needed for the list)) or Space disaster.

Spacewalk

 * 1) Update mission infobox
 * 2) Update mission text (section labeled Spacewalks; new sub-section for each EVA)
 * 3) Update List of spacewalks
 * 4) If an ISS mission, update List of ISS spacewalks (almost, but not exactly the same format as List of spacewalks)
 * 5) Update each spacewalkers' biography page. (Should at least have total number of walks mentioned.)
 * 6) In a few cases, List of Spaceflight records or List of cumulative spacewalk records may need updating or Space disaster (current records are 16 spacewalks for one person, and total spacewalk time of 77 hours, 41 minutes)

Space travellers
One of the aims of this project is to better organise information in articles related to Space travellers (eg. Astronauts, Cosmonauts, etc). The aim is to standardise biographical articles about space travellers. All biographical articles about people who have been into space lie within its scope. This is being done in collaboration with the Aerospace biography task force of WikiProject Aviation.

Tasks
Check that all articles have the correct type of space traveller defined. An Astronaut is anybody who has flown on an American spacecraft. A Cosmonaut is anybody who has flown on a Russian/Soviet spacecraft. This is regardless of their own nationality, so a Russian who has flown on the Shuttle is an Astronaut, not a Cosmonaut, and an American who has flown on Soyuz is a Cosmonaut.

Templates

 * Infobox Astronaut
 * Astronaut-stub

Space missions
The other key aim of the project is to standardise articles on human space missions (such as Vostok 1, Mercury-Redstone 3, and Shenzhou 5). The project aims to define a standard layout for articles about space missions.

Structure
Three major classes of space missions exist, being country-based space exploration information (which currently exists in any primitive form, e.g. Space program of China, NASA, Canadian Space Agency), craft/programme-based space exploration information (e.g. Shenzhou spacecraft, Mercury program, Vostok), individual mission information (e.g. Vostok 1, Mercury 3, and Shenzhou 5). Ideally, there would thus be two differing formats, depending on whether a mission or a programme is the article in question.

Please see STS-120, Apollo 11, etc. for good sample articles.

Space Programmes
Nothing yet, but use footers

Space Missions
Space Missions should begin with the bolded name of the mission, followed by a simple description of the mission.

The page should be roughly divided up with several headers, in the following order: Crew Members, Mission Objective. Please note that this is not a hard and fast rule, but is meant for a general rule of thumb

On the right hand side should float a table containing mission insignia or logo (if applicable), mission name (again), any nicknames (for the craft itself, or call signs), number of crew, launch date, time, and location, landing date, time, and location, duration, and number of orbits. Not all of these are necessary, and some other facts may be deemed important. In general, this box is to be used for specific information that can be quickly looked up. It should not have every last aspect of the mission however. If something is not known, the row should not appear. The exceptions to this rule are the basic information: Mission, Call Sign, Spacecraft Name, Launch, Landing, Duration, and Orbits.

On the bottom should be a table linking again to the programme/spaceship.

As for other standards that do not pertain to a preferred page design:


 * Per MOS:GNL, preferred terminology is "crewed", "human", "piloted", etc. rather than "manned" and "unmanned"
 * Use astronaut for American spacefarers, cosmonaut for Soviet/Russian spacefarers, and yuhangyuan for Chinese spacefarers. The last name may be changed at any time as the official name still seems to be in question, and should be put up for a vote on the discussion page, but for the immediate future, use yuhangyuan (in tandem with astronaut if necessary) but NOT taikonaut.
 * Times in the table should be 24-hour UTC. Times in the text of a document should be in 12-hour local time (with UTC offset given).  Any link of UTC in the table should only be done once.  Years however should be linked every time.
 * Duration should have written out time words. (e.g. "1 day, 1 hour, 8 minutes", not "1 day 01:08" or "25:08")
 * Even though this can be construed as a historical project, it is also very much a scientific project, so please use only metric units in the articles.
 * Dates in the info box and in the body of the article should be wikilinked as described in the Wikipedia Manual of Style.
 * Longitude and Latitude should be in degrees, minutes, and seconds if possible, rather than in decimal format.

An example can be seen at Vostok 1 for now.

Space Missions
See WikiProject Space missions/Space Missions