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Text and/or other creative content from NASA was copied or moved into List of NASA aircraft with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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RM, NASA → National Aeronautics and Space Administration, No consensus, 24 August 2006, discussion
RM, NASA → National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Not moved, 5 March 2015, discussion
RM, NASA → National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Not moved, 7 April 2022, discussion

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Change ESDMD Associate administrator from James Free to Catherine A. Koerner

Change SOMD Associate administrator from Kathy Lueders to Kenneth D. Bowersox

Change STMD Associate administrator from James L. Reuter to Kurt "Spuds" Vogel Montanot (talk) 04:17, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

These changes have been announced and are reflected in the NASA bio pages:

I'm not certain whether these sources, rather than secondary sources as currently used, are preferred for this. Are there reliable secondary sources easily available? (sdsds - talk) 04:45, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me that in this context the use of a primary source falls within the criteria of both WP:PRIMARY and WP:ABOUTSELF. — FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 15:08, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done — FenrisAureus ▲ (she/they) (talk) 15:17, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

typo of the word apollo

in the moon landing section, at paragraph 5, line 4, the word apollo is spelled appollo. could somebody fix that quick Andpug1 (talk) 12:56, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. YBSOne (talk) 16:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Work on bringing to Good Article

Hello all! I will be starting work to bring this article to a good article status over the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions, comments, concerns welcome below! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 21:11, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The final two paragraphs of the "Moon landing" subsection don't really seem to belong there. The second paragraph should also be reworded and expanded. Ships & Space_(Edits) 21:28, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ships&Space, thanks for the thoughts! Do you think the last two paragraphs be kept in the NASA article to another section or deleted altogether? Will work on re-wording/expanding second paragraph. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 23:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edits For Review

Hello there,

I posted some edits to the NASA Research Park talk page and would appreciate if someone could take a look. Thank you.

2601:646:100:E880:CED:6845:1D02:6D48 (talk) 17:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

floating railway on the moon

@Cocobb8, @SpaceHist65, @SpaceHist65,

I’m new to this article. Wanted to float this by some experienced contributors to this article. I saw this interesting tidbit about a floating railway to the moon NASA might do. Would we want to add this? (https://www.autoblog.com/2024/05/21/nasa-wants-to-build-a-floating-railway-on-the-moon/) Thanks! Hannahthom7 (talk) 14:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is quite a bit of news coverage, I would say yes but it should be limited to a single sentence at least on this page. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 14:30, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 I’m new to this article. Wanted to float this by some experienced contributors to this article. I saw this interesting tidbit about a floating railway to the moon NASA might do. Would we want to add this? (https://www.autoblog.com/2024/05/21/nasa-wants-to-build-a-floating-railway-on-the-moon/) Thanks! [[User:Hannahthom7|Hannahthom7]] ([[User talk:Hannahthom7|talk]]) 14:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 :There is quite a bit of [https://www.google.com/search?q=flaoting+railway+moon&rlz=1CAIGZW%20enCA1111&oq=flaoting+railway+moon&gs%20lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCDM1ODBqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 news coverage], I would say yes but it should be limited to a single sentence at least on this page. [[User:Cocobb8|'''<span style="color:purple">Coco</span><span style="color:green">bb8</span>''']] (💬 [[User talk:Cocobb8|talk]] • ✏️ [[Special:Contributions/Cocobb8|contribs]]) 14:30, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
-turculance  above  portland [[Special:Contributions/2600:100F:B1BA:BF1:0:11:5C5F:3C01|2600:100F:B1BA:BF1:0:11:5C5F:3C01]] ([[User talk:2600:100F:B1BA:BF1:0:11:5C5F:3C01|talk]]) 18:32, 5 August 2024 (UTC)