Talk:Jeanette Epps

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Soyuz MS-09

Jeanette Epps has been replaced by backup crew Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor for the Soyuz MS-09 flight.

Source (German, sorry): http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/alexander-gerst-deutscher-astronaut-bekommt-neue-iss-kollegin-a-1188637.html

Announcement should become more widely available shortly (should already be out there, but I wasn't able to find a NASA source atm).

--2001:1C00:1C01:7C00:A945:55D6:F3C:15CB (talk) 20:12, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Another Yvonne Cagle ? Hektor (talk) 15:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Firsts, seconds, thirds?

This paragraph from the current version the § NASA career section is out of date:

On August 25, 2020, NASA announced that Epps would join the first operational mission of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station.^[1] According to The New York Times, Epps "would be the first Black woman to be part of an I.S.S. crew."^[2] African-American astronauts were members of space-shuttle crews during ISS construction, until Victor Glover none had become a crew member making an extended stay.^[2]

Since Epps's roll in Boeing Starliner-1 was announced, both Glover and Watkins have completed long-duration stays on Station. At this point, is being the 2nd Black woman and 3rd Black astronaut doing so sufficiently notable for those rankings to be mentioned, or should those two lines simply be removed? -- ToE 16:57, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Potter, Sean (August 25, 2020). "Astronaut Jeanette Epps Joins First Operational Boeing Crew Mission". NASA. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Waller, Allyson (November 15, 2020). "Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2020. Next year, he [astronaut Victor Glover] could be followed by Jeanette Epps, who would be the first Black woman to be part of an I.S.S. crew. She will fly aboard the first operational crewed trip of Boeing's Starliner capsule.

Over Citing

I'd like remind editors, that almost every case where there are three or more citations, that those are too many and not needed. None of the sentences are controversial and don't need five or some cases seven citations. Also, the lede paragraph doesn't need citations, as long as it summarizing material in the body of the article that has proper citations. They do. I may clean up the citation situation at a later time. Abebenjoe (talk) 01:39, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Potter, Sean (August 25, 2020). "Astronaut Jeanette Epps Joins First Operational Boeing Crew Mission". NASA. Retrieved August 25, 2020.

[NYT_First-2] Waller, Allyson (November 15, 2020). "Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2020. Next year, he [astronaut Victor Glover] could be followed by Jeanette Epps, who would be the first Black woman to be part of an I.S.S. crew. She will fly aboard the first operational crewed trip of Boeing's Starliner capsule.

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