Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/STS-130 Launch Pad 39A

STS-130 Launch Pad 39A

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Original – An exhaust cloud engulfs Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida as space shuttle Endeavour lifts off into the night sky. The primary payload for the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station is the Tranquility node, a pressurized module that will provide additional room for crew members and many of the station's life support and environmental control systems.

Reason

The image, which is already featured on two other Wikipedias, is an impressive high quality depiction of the exhaust cloud, result of the STS-130 launch. It's one of the finest of its kind.

Articles in which this image appears

STS-130

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there

Creator

Sandra Joseph and Kevin O'Connell from the NASA

• Support as nominator --— ΛΧΣ²¹ 06:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. The file is used on STS-130, where it does not "contribute significantly" – as far as I can see, the exhaust cloud was not notable in the context of the STS-130. Hence the rather solitary gallery usage. I agree it's a "impressive high quality depiction of the exhaust cloud" and might have a place in articles about rocket propulsion or take-offs, but it doesn't at the moment. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 12:05, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
  • I have added the image to Solid-fuel_rocket#Performance. I was checking the article while gathering information (I am planning to make a list of space shuttles) and I believe it has a good place there. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 19:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:04, 19 January 2013 (UTC)