Talk:Mercury-Redstone 1

Sequence of Events[edit]

I ditched the "sequence of events" table seeing as on this flight, nothing actually worked. (I was the anonymous editor, sorry I forgot to write a change summary/log-in) Lostchicken 04:16, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"The capsule's weight"[edit]

I removed this phrase, since as I understand it weight doesn't cause acceleration. Jminthorne (talk) 04:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Is it editorialising to refer to the sequence of events as "strange"?[edit]

I left a hidden comment in the article about this, but I will also mention it here. Would anyone say that referring to the sequence of events as "strange" in Wikipedia's voice counts as editorialising? I'm not sure myself. Does anyone have an opinion on this matter? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 06:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it does. Like a most adjectives, it doesn't belong here. HiLo48 (talk) 06:19, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:HiLo48. Do you have any recommendations for what the wording could be changed to? Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 08:25, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not the user you were responding to, but perhaps "unexpected" or might work? I'd also consider "unusual" or "abnormal", though I would absolutely want to see if any of these could be sourced. Maybe contemporary news articles might have something? This source has the word "inexplicable" ("technically it seemed inexplicable that the normal, instead of the abort ejection, sequence had followed engine shutdown") which I also like, and which is pre-sourced for convenience... but has the definite drawback of being inaccurate, since the failure was ultimately explained. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 16:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry about the fact that I asked HiLo48 and you responded, User:NekoKatsun :) Building the encylopedia is of course our main goal, and any useful contribution to that end from anyone is highly welcome. I much appreciate any input here. I'll be away for a while, but hopefully we can have a proper discussion about this and see what we think will work best at the earliest convenience :) DesertPipeline (talk) 17:43, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm back :) Also I noticed that the lead says "the launch failed in a peculiar fashion". I guess we'll have to figure out how to reword that too. DesertPipeline (talk) 05:37, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Changed it to "abnormal" and then briefly summarized what happened, which was an obvious oversight in the lead. I understand the need to avoid editorializing language here, but this really was a completely unexpected and bizarre sequence of events to viewers at the time, even those in the know. The system simply wasn't supposed to behave like this. --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]