Wikipedia:Picture peer review/STS-124 Kibo installation

STS-124 Garan EVA2

Astronaut Ron Garan, STS-124 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Garan and astronaut Mike Fossum (out of frame), mission specialist, installed television cameras on the front and rear of the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module (JPM) to assist Kibo robotic arm operations, removed thermal covers from the Kibo robotic arm, prepared an upper JPM docking port for flight day seven's attachment of the Kibo logistics module, readied a spare nitrogen tank assembly for its installation during the third spacewalk, retrieved a failed television camera from the Port 1 truss, and inspected the port Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ).

I believe this is just an incredibly detailed picture of an astrounaut working on the ISS.

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Hans (talk) 16:52, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• There is a higher resolution image available at the nasa-site [1]
• While an interesting photo, the current version here is too small for FPC (<1000px on the shortest side). Quality is also poor. If you can upload the big version we could have another look. Note however that we have a considerable number of NASA images as FPs and they can come under harsh scrutiny. One of the concerns with this would be the very tight crop. Additionally, while I don't doubt that this was taken in space as suggested, there is actually nothing in the photo that 'proves' this; in other words, how is this picture any better than a similar photo that could be taken on Earth? Finally, the image is only used in a gallery in one article. This gives it insufficient encyclopaedic value and would need to be remedied prior to an FPC nom. --jjron (talk) 19:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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