Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shuttle-Mir

Reason: Because of a lack of images depicting the Russian space program in the Aeronautics and aviation section. This image depicts a historic event, the first docking of a Space Shuttle to a space station (Mir), and is a one-of-a-kind because this is the only time that a manned spacecraft was undocked from a space station while a Space Shuttle was still docked to the same space station. (The current mission rules of the International Space Station make this type of image impossible to obtain)
Articles this image appears in: International Space Station, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Spacecraft, Mir, Russian Federal Space Agency, STS-71, Shuttle-Mir Program, Space rendezvous, List of spacecraft and crews that visited Mir, and numerous others through Template:Shuttle-Mir
Creator: Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin/NASA

Support as nominator ---MBK₀₀₄ 06:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This image is currently on Commons. Since I am rather inpet with images, would someone who deals with images regularly deal with the process of placing {{FPC|Shuttle-Mir}} on the image page? -MBK₀₀₄ 06:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Create the page here and just paste the template. I have done this one --Muhammad(talk) 07:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It might have EV, and we might need a MIR image, but upon close inspection the quality of this image is awful.
Support per nom. I particularly like the composition. I disagree with the unsigned comment above-- this is the level of sharpness that you get with space mission images. Spikebrennan (talk) 20:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Good enough EV, but I don't really think it's FP quality. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]