Template:Did you know nominations/Shuttle-Centaur
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- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:37, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
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Shuttle-Centaur

Shuttle-Centaur booster on display at the Glenn Research Center
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that the Shuttle-Centaur booster on display at the Glenn Research Center (pictured) was once intended to send a space probe to Jupiter? Source: [1]- ALT1:... that the Shuttle-Centaur booster (test article on display at the Glenn Research Center pictured) was once intended to send a space probe to Jupiter? Source: [2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/This Dust Was Once the Man
- Comment: If you can think of a better hook go right ahead
Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:05, 18 October 2020 (UTC).
Lua error: expandTemplate: template "y" does not exist. I've added a second, NASA, source. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:27, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote this, but where does the article or source say that this particular shuttle Template:Tq? Or do all Shuttle-Centaurs fit into this same category? Yoninah (talk) 00:07, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- "Originally scheduled to fly in 1986, the Centaur-G's use on board the space shuttle was cancelled after the Challenger accident that year. At the time of the tragedy, two Centaur-G Prime stages were in preparation to launch with NASA's Ulysses and Galileo planetary spacecraft to study the Sun and Jupiter, respectively." (The Ulysses probe to the Sun would have gone by way of the Jupiter.) "One of the Centaur-G Prime stages built for the shuttle is believed to have been modified for the launch of NASA's Cassini probe to Saturn atop a Titan IVB rocket in 1997." "The Space and Rocket Center had labeled the Centaur-G now being moved as a mockup, though there is some data that points to it being the other stage originally built for the program. Glenn Research Center's records identify it being a high-fidelity ground test article." [3]