Talk:Human spaceflight

Feeding Mars Colony

Symbiotic resource flows, governed by conservation laws and thermodynamic efficiencies, target 94 % system closure by mission year 5, obviating Earth resupply and enabling economic autonomy via ISRU. SillyCowgirl08 (talk) 16:28, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Resource flows, governed by conservation laws and thermodynamic efficiencies, target 94 % system closure by mission year 5, obviating Earth resupply and enabling economic autonomy via ISRU. SillyCowgirl08 (talk) 16:32, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

By Achievement Section

This is currently marked as needing expansion. There are no achievements listed between 1969 and 2026, during which time the whole of the shuttle programme occured (and other events by other countries of course) - so there are undoubtedly many things to add here. However I think it would be neater to convert this information into a table of the style:

Date	Achievement	People Involved	Mission
12 April 1961	First human in space and the first in Earth orbit	Yuri Gagarin	Vostok 1
17 July 1962 or 19 July 1963	The first to pilot a spaceplane, the North American X-15, on 17 July 1962 (White) or 19 July 1963 (Walker)	Either Robert M. White or Joseph A. Walker (depending on the definition of the space border)	X-15 Flight 62 (White) or X-15 Flight 90 (Walker)
18 March 1965	First to walk in space.	Alexei Leonov	Voskhod 2
...

I think this is easier to read/find information in, contains more information, and it reads more like a timeline than a list of short paragraphs. The vast majority of the entries in this section are short sentences that would easily fit in 1 table row. Timelines have been formatted as both tables and as sections/paragraphs, so I think there is argument for both. The "By Country" section is already formatted as a table.

If there are no objections within the next 7 days (-37 days remaining), I will:

• go ahead with this reformatting
• add in achievements of the same or higher notability as those already included. BennBluee (talk) 01:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Also, this section needs inline citations, which I will happily add BennBluee (talk) 01:35, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

The "By nationality or sex" section could also be formatted like this BennBluee (talk) 01:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Turns out a table already exists at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Human_spaceflight_firsts

I still think this section should still be modified to a table, but I won't make it extensive. I will just add a few of the most notable examples within the missing timespan, and reference this List of spaceflight records section in a see also / main article link. BennBluee (talk) 02:12, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

I think it might be easier to simply transclude the table mentioned above:

Human Spaceflight Firsts AmigaClone (talk) 20:10, 15 June 2026 (UTC)