Talk:Charles Bassett

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Preslethe in topic GA Review
Good articleCharles Bassett has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starCharles Bassett is part of the 1966 NASA T-38 crash series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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March 25, 2019Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 25, 2019.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that NASA test pilots Charles Bassett and Elliot See (pictured) are among the fallen astronauts whose names are etched on a plaque on the Moon, placed by the crew of Apollo 15?
On this day... A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 28, 2020.
Current status: Good article

Apollo Program edit

I see that he's not listed as being a part of the Apollo program, but I have access to a document (the document is in my husband's possession) which lists Bassett as a participant. It is signed by Bassett, as well as 27 other astronauts, dated 17 March 1965; just thirteen months before his death. The document however does not state the nature of his participation, so should this be added to the article? Not the document of course, but the fact that he was an Apollo participant? MagnoliaSouth (talk) 06:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

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GA Review edit

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Reviewer: Nova Crystallis (talk · contribs) 03:08, 20 March 2019 (UTC)Reply


Reviewing later. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 03:08, 20 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • Any info on Bassett's parents?
    Yes, included. Kees08 (Talk)
  • The part about Bassett leaving OSU for the Air Force should be mentioned in the early life section.
    Moved Kees08 (Talk)
  • "and did graduate work at USC in Los Angeles" When?
  • And did he finish it?
  • All four aircraft need to be linked.
    Done Kees08 (Talk)
  • "He went to Korea with the 8th Fighter Bomber Group and flew a F-86 Sabre." When?
    The book is pretty unclear about it, there some adjacent dates to get within a ballpark but it would be a bit of a guess. Kees08 (Talk)
  • "Bassett went to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, to attend Squadron Officer School." Don't think the comma after Alabama is needed here.
    Got rid of both Kees08 (Talk)
  • "They died within 500 feet (150 m) of their spacecraft." Aircraft?
    Nope, the crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being built and landed pretty close to it. Kees08 (Talk)
  • When did Bassett marry and have kids?
    Added Kees08 (Talk)
  • Ref #14's archive date needs to be in the same format as the others.
    Fixed Kees08 (Talk)

Just a few things. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 09:12, 24 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

Re the words “'Bassett went to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, to attend Squadron Officer School.' Don't think the comma after Alabama is needed here.", above: Parentheses opened must be closed. Such constructions as "Dallas, Texas is a big city" and "December 7, 1941 was an important day" are faulty. In each, the first comma opens a parenthesis: without another comma, there is no mark to show where the parenthesis ends. It's obvious if you use other punctuation to mark the parenthesis: you would never write "Dallas (Texas is a big city" and "December 7 (1941 was an important day", but you would write "Dallas (Texas) is a big city" and "December 7 (1941) was an important day". President Lethe (talk) 04:28, 18 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Military career edit

@Hawkeye7: Would you be interested in writing about his military career? He will be featured on the main page soon here, and I plan to write up the rest of the article sometime this week. Kees08 (Talk) 17:09, 14 July 2019 (UTC)Reply