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Hi Penny Richards, can you help me write a DYK hook for this article. I was thinking of something related to Malitson and Marcia Neugebauer's contributions to the Apollo missions. But I am having a hard time expressing exactly what they did. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 06:58, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Coffeeandcrumbs: Hmm, something like DYK "...that scientists Harriet H. Malitson and Marcia Neugebauer did research on solar activity that contributed to the safe timing of the Apollo missions?" Penny Richards (talk) 13:44, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Penny Richards: the claim that her research was used to make scheduling decisions would have to be mentioned in the article. I can do that if you can point me to your source. I don't see that in the two sources from Newspaper.com.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 14:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Coffeeandcrumbs:: Ah, I see what you mean. I guess it's suggested as a possibility in that 1963 article, and she says that's what she's doing, but we don't have NASA saying "we used this for that". That might not exist, but I'll hunt around a little more, and consult my in-house space guy. I just added reference to a 1962 speech by NASA head James E. Webb, in which he mentions Malitson (and Eleanor C. Pressly, Nancy Roman, Marjorie Townsend, Marcia Neugebauer, and Ann Bailey) as women in "positions of importance" in the space program. Penny Richards (talk) 15:33, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Coffeeandcrumbs:: Okay, might have something: I found a National Research Council report titled Radiation and the International Space Station: Recommendations to Reduce Risk (2000), where they talk about radiation risk and the Apollo missions, and how they used data from Malitson and Weber's Solar Proton Manual (1963) to minimize that risk. I added mention of the manual, with a reference. (In-house space guy says that they still use a solar proton manual in planning for satellite stuff.) Penny Richards (talk) 16:45, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]