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STS-48 thru 51

..what happened to STS-48 thru 51?

Shuttle missions are planned years in advance, and given designations at that time. Various factors including shuttle refurbishment time, delays in producing the item that is the main object of the mission and other factors then lead to delays in the scheduled launch of each missionSo in this case, STS-52 was ready to go before STS-48 thru 51.Theon 15:13, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

Sex Rumor.

I am including the fact that it has been rummored that Davis and Lee (a married couple)possibly had sex on board the space shuttle on this flight. This blog entry gives the entire story: http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/02/has_it_been_don.html Dreammaker182 (talk) 04:14, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And I've reverted because blogs are NOT reliable sources and are explicitly not allowed per WP:V. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:47, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of the rumours, the fact is that this was the first and only time a married couple were allowed to fly together with NASA (allegedly NASA were notified of the marriage too late to find a replacement). I think there should be a mention of this in the article if a reliable source can be found.124.148.55.133 (talk) 07:16, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That blog link has since been broken, and I don't see any point of including it as any source unless credible news agencies published the rumor at the time. SpacePod9 (talk) 00:09, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rampant Plagiarism untouched since 2004 - Improvements in Progress

One thing that's shocked me is that this article contains plagiarized info from NASA's fact sheets & mission archives about STS-47, specifically the majority of the first paragraph and the entirety of the third, fourth, and fifth in the mission highlights section, were ripped directly from the NASA mission summary published in the external links section. While the source has been linked, there are no inline citations where the source came from, and while I believe information a public agency like NASA publishes on the internet is in the public domain, outright plagiarism like this has never been allowed on Wikipedia to my knowledge, and it's never a good practice. This information was first posted by the article's creator 17 years ago, and I'm astonished that it hasn't been changed since. Other articles started by the same creator have been edited from the basic NASA factsheets, and some have even gone on to become featured articles on the English Wikipedia. I feel like this issue is too big for a casual editor like myself to solve, so I'm wondering if perhaps more invested Wikipedia editors or perhaps the more active users in this article's categories can try to fix the issues here, since I would like to see this article remain and preferably not have to be deleted and made again from scratch. The people who served on STS-47 and those who worked to make it possible deserve a better article about their scientific and engineering accomplishments. Sorry for the long rant. SpacePod9 (talk) 23:55, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Finally doing something about it by adding sources and improving the article - I don't think most other STS articles were this egregious in plagiarism, but many need inline references and perhaps a rewrite - it's more than a one editor's job. SpacePod9 (talk) 05:14, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Science Article Links

These are links for quality references regarding some of the experiments done on this mission, for future editors. SpacePod9 (talk) 07:45, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SpacePod9 (talk) 07:45, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The only oral histories I could find for any crew members are Robert Gibsons:

Another AIAA paper about Spacelab-J, published before launch. SpacePod9 (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/epdf/10.2514/6.1990-3539