Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Roger B. Chaffee

Roger B. Chaffee

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 15, 2020 by Ealdgyth - Talk 21:47, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Roger B. Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut in the Apollo program. He died in a fire along with Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. Before joining NASA, Chaffee obtained his private pilot's license and graduated from Purdue University in 1957. Joining the U.S. Navy as an ensign, he trained to fly the T-34, T-28, and A3D. Serving as quality and safety control officer for Heavy Photographic Squadron 62, he took crucial photos of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, earning him the Air Medal. He joined NASA's Astronaut Group 3 in 1963 and served as capsule communicator at Mission Control Center in Houston for the Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 missions. He was given his first spaceflight assignment in 1966 as the third-ranking pilot on Apollo 1 and was promoted soon after to lieutenant commander in the Navy. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and a second Air Medal. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Buzz Aldrin on January 20, 2020
• Main editors: Kees08
• Promoted: 9 March 2019
• Reasons for nomination: 85th anniversary of his birth
• Support as nominator. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 05:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
• Support. Per TFAR instructions, copying in the blurb from the blurb review. It's fine to make changes, but the starting point needs to be the blurb that people agreed on. (Among other reasons, a visible consensus-driven process helps us deal with objections from Main Page people ... I'm bringing this up because you're more aware than most of why this is important.) - Dank (push to talk) 12:12, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Sorry, I completely forgot we worked on it. I had a brainfart and, of course, I should have checked the FAC talk page first. But I think my version was better. For one, he was not Lt. Commander until 1966, three years after selection as astronaut. Some of the things mentioned in this version are unnecessary and took up too much space that could be better used. I can understand wanting to move death towards the end but I think that is one of the most notable things about his life and should be closer to the beginning. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 14:32, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
    • Sure, feel free to make changes. - Dank (push to talk) 15:56, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
      • I have "rewritten" per "my version". Not trying to be snarky. I completely understand your reasoning. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 15:59, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
        • No snark detected. Looks good. Although I get that most of this will sound jargony to someone who has zero knowledge about spaceflight, CAPCOM still crosses a jargon line for me ... I wrote it out ... now 1010 characters (of a possible 1025). - Dank (push to talk) 16:42, 10 January 2020 (UTC) I'm not sure about "the" in front of "Heavy Photographic Squadron 62". - Dank (push to talk) 16:53, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Support If it was up to me we'd have an astronaught or a NASA article on the main page every day :-) Great article Boston1775 (talk) 09:24, 12 January 2020 (UTC)