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Proposed move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:07, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of rockets used by NASA → List of United States rockets — Article is a list of US rockets, many of which have little or no relevance to NASA. It would be easier to change the scope of the article than to try and clean it up to meet its current title. --G W… 23:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going to suggest exactly this on your talk page. You went ahead and started the RM so we may as well let it run to completion now, but I'd say that this is actually a fairly uncontroversial move. I'm fairly certain that a "List of US rockets" was the intent of the original author. Incidentally, I was noticing earlier today that there are a lot of articles/categories which are currently in the Category:NASA category web that should be broken up and/or reorganized into more general "US spaceflight" categories.
— V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 00:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problems with the move and the proposed clean-up. -MBK₀₀₄ 01:57, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Used by NASA?

Will we include private launchers such as the Falcon 9, if it is "used by NASA" as part of the COTS or CCDEV programs? user:mnw2000 17:18, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well given the over year old move discussed above I'm assuming that the scope of the article has changed too being for any US launch vehicles, not just ones used by NASA. ChiZeroOne (talk) 17:27, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

will we include other rockets not launched by NASA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.188.175.189 (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Concepts v.s. prototypes v.s. operational vehicles

What's the scope? At least one vehicle in this list never made it past paper. There are also prototypes, e.g. the Falcon 1 made two successful orbital flights, then SpaceX moved on to bigger rockets. Operational vehicles would be those that have made many, routine flights.

Personally, I think we need to remove concepts and limit it to vehicles that have actually achieved orbit. - Ann Onymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C5E8:AFA0:6030:2A0F:1000:1C63 (talk) 21:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]