Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Astronaut training

Astronaut training

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Original – Astronaut training in the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located in the hangar at Langley Research Center. This position meant that a person's legs experienced only one sixth of their weight, which was the equivalent of being on the lunar surface.

Reason

good enough quality and good EV

Articles in which this image appears

Astronaut training

FP category for this image

probably Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – Artem.G (talk) 20:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:34, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 17:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support --Janke | Talk 20:36, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:50, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support. This belongs in a gallery with other photos of people walking on walls, like Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding and Adam West and Burt Ward in the 1960s Batman TV series. Choliamb (talk) 20:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

• Ah, but here, the wires show... ;-) --Janke | Talk 08:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

• Support – _ZZ^Z'S 10:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - I found the same photo with higher resolution, updated the file here and in the article. New file is 5,690 × 4,546 pixels, old one is 3,000 x 2,395. Artem.G (talk) 13:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 18:00, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator - NASA 1963.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:50, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

• Added image to Space/Getting there instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:50, 14 July 2024 (UTC)