Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/STS-134

STS-134 Mission Poster

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 May 2011 at 20:12:37 (UTC)

Reason: Draws you into a great article of historical significance. Excellent layout of quality images.
Articles in which this image appears: STS-134,Mark_Kelly_(astronaut)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator: NASA

Support as nominator --Gabeguss (talk) 20:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Huh. This is weird. This was obviously made before the Giffords shooting (since it was uploaded before the shooting). The angle of Kelly's head in this shot is often called by film buffs the "Kubrick look" and is understood to be menacing. Is NASA still using this poster? I feel like their more recent promotional efforts have been quite different, given the circumstances. Chick Bowen 00:32, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This poster is from the Space Flight Awareness program in NASA which is aimed at employee moral (as far as I can tell from the website). They have another series of posters from the Kennedy Space Center which are different and maybe aimed at the public. Gabeguss (talk) 15:17, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Can't see any value inside this image. On top of that, the mainpage is not an advertisement board. --Niabot (talk) 07:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the featured picture on the mainpage advertise the articles available on Wikipedia? Gabeguss (talk) 15:19, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose -- the poor resolution of the satellite above their heads is quite a big flaw, in my view, I'm afraid. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 18:29, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as above. I'm not convinced that this is FP material, and the EV seems somehwat lacking. I really don't know what to make of this- I think it's a little embarrassing... Does NASA have nothing better to do? J Milburn (talk) 11:07, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:44, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]