Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 3

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kees08 (talk · contribs) 05:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

• No training photo?

  Y Added one. Since the Nextr Nine article has a pic of survival training, I decided to go with one of geology training. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Replace Anders image with higher resolution

   Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Same for Bean

   Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Same for Freeman

   Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Personality rights warning for portraits

  Not adding this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

  Discussion from NASA Astronaut Group 3 will apply here (and for the Group 5 review). Kees08 (Talk) 16:09, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

  And what I said was that I don't like editing Commons. Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:30, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

• Can you add a description, date, etc to File:RichardFGordon.jpg? I'm sure that is more than a GA requires, but while we are here..

• Y Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Maybe add an image to the background section per my same comment at the group 2 article

That's it for images for now Kees08 (Talk) 02:11, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Can we avoid repeating 'the selection panel'? by the selection panel. The selection panel

• Y Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (discuss)
• Could change to depicted asked what it was a picture of.

  Y Changed. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Change inches to feet and inches, and don't metric users measure height by meters? 70.1 inches (1,780 mm), compared with 69.79 inches (1,773 mm)

  Metric users quote their heights in centimetres (I'm 178 cm). Adjusted the conversion. The original source is in inches rather than feet and inches. Similarly, weights are quoted in pounds with a decimal rather than stones and pounds, which was the norm with the old measurements. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• That's a hell of a sentence, recommend breaking it up While six of the Nine had bachelor's degrees, and three had master's degrees, only seven of the Fourteen had only bachelor's degree, and three of them were working on their master's, six had master's degrees, and Cunningham was working on his doctorate, and Buzz Aldrin had a Doctor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Should African American be hyphenated here? African American astronaut candidate

  I guess so. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase He was selected as Pilot for Gemini 9,

  They are capitalised in Astronaut ranks and positions. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

  It should be changed there to lower case as well. Our style guide trumps source usage and other style guides. NASA's style guide has them capitalized, but we follow our own guide and not theirs. Kees08 (Talk) 23:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase Bean received a bachelor of science

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase served as backup Command Pilot

  As above. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase backup Commander for

  As above. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase Master of Science earned a master of science degree

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase a bachelor of science degree

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase for a master of science degree

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase pilot and prime crew to be Pilot on the Prime Crew

  As above. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase as Command Module Pilot of

  As above. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase earned a bachelor of arts degree

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Uppercase and a master of arts degree

  Y Capitalised. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Did Apollo 2 become Apollo 7? Also, not sure you need to mention prime crew, that should be the default. Is the order right, selected for Apollo 2 then Apollo 1? He was selected as lunar module pilot in the prime crew for Apollo 2, and then the backup crew for Apollo 1.

  The mission (a reprise of Apollo 7) was cancelled and the Apollo 2 crew became the backup crew for Apollo 1, then the prime crew for Apollo 7. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase in Astronautics in 1960

  Y De-capped. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase degree in Aeronautical Engineering from

  Y De-capped. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Lowercase and was backup Commander

  As above. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Looks like citation 16, 26, and 49 should be in the References section
• Citation 30 publisher is different from the rest

  Y Corrected. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Could add the dates for all the NASA biographies

  Don't see the benefit, given that we have the archive date. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Sources are reliable

I think it just needs the capital letters issue, such as He was selected as Pilot for Gemini 9, fixed prior to promotion. Kees08 (Talk) 00:19, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Y All done. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:38, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

NASA Astronaut Group 3 - 'The Fourteen' - 7 were Air Force, 4 were Navy, and three others

I added... Seven were Air Force, four were Navy, and three others. 2601:589:4801:5660:8CED:58:5795:D261 (talk) 11:35, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Weight

Their average weight was higher too: 162 pounds (73 kg) compared to 159 pounds (72 kg) for the Seven and 161.5 pounds (73.3 kg) for the Nine.

How does it work? 161.5 should be less than 162, but in kg it seems to be the opposite. Artem.G (talk) 18:42, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Oh, good eye! It's a sig fig problem -- the last one was being rounded to the nearest 0.1 while the others, being integers, were rounded to the nearest 1.0. For now I've changed them all to round to the nearest 0.1, which puts the kilogram measurements in the right order -- I don't think it's false precision, as no rounded number has more significant figures than the raw number on which it's based. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 19:25, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I have adjusted them. See Template:Convert for how it works. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 21 August 2025 (UTC)