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"Unmanned"?!

Why does this use the term "unmanned" instead of "robotic"? NASA's style guide has recommended against using "manned"/"unmanned" since 2004. 24.59.58.64 (talk) 17:43, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That term is not used anywhere in the article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:08, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7 It's in the description at the very top.

Galileo project

Unmanned NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and its moons 24.59.58.64 (talk) 22:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. I didn't know the short description was human visible. Deleted. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7 Thank you! :) 24.59.58.64 (talk) 05:47, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA subpage move proposal

I'd like to do some clean up of the GA subpages associated with this article and with Galileo (spacecraft). I understand that the pages came from a content split, but I think the names are out of sync with the pages they are considered to be reviews of. The subpages are:

Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)/GA1 - linked on this page in article history, but has the other page name
Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)/GA2 - linked on Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)
Talk:Galileo project/GA1 - linked on this page

The first one was before the content split. I think it's up to the editors of this page to decide whether that review is more suitably associated with this page or the other one, but if it's here I think it should have the right name. Assuming it should be here, I propose to do the following moves:

Talk:Galileo project/GA1 -> Talk:Galileo project/GA2 without leaving a redirect
Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)/GA1 -> Talk:Galileo project/GA1 without leaving a redirect
Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)/GA2 -> Talk:Galileo (spacecraft)/GA1 without leaving a redirect

I would then make sure article_history on each talk page reflects the correct links in each case. Any comments before I make the moves? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:02, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

During the GA review process, the article was split into two. The pages were later improperly swapped around by cutting and pasting instead of moving, thus trashing the article histories. So sure, go for it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:44, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK, done. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Good job everyone. Just the lede made me think "wow it was such a brave little toaster" and I found the whole saga oddly moving as well as fascinating. TY for your work. jengod (talk) 22:42, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'm always glad to hear feedback on articles. Glad you enjoyed it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:13, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

other GP?

What about the Galileo Project at Harvard, which looks for evidence of aliens or alien technology within the Solar System? https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home Kdammers (talk) 18:36, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What about it? As it says at the top of the page, "For the project to study UFOs, see The Galileo Project." Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:30, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Morabito Incident

The section on Europa has a vague, book-sourced mention of some kind of squabble over who had first dibs on the imaging data, ending with "the scientific community did not want a repetition of the 1979 Morabito incident, when Linda A. Morabito, an engineer at JPL working on Voyager 1, discovered the first active extraterrestrial volcano on Io". This is presented as common knowledge, but Google is none the wiser, and it's not clear exactly what the incident was. There's an implication that Morabito somehow jumped the queue, but nothing concrete. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:20, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The quoted sentence just told you what happened: a major discovery was made by someone who was not a member of an academic research team. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:50, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]