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Bug report in mobile app

The edit buttons keep going to the wrong sections in the mobile app. For example, hitting the edit button on the flights section directs me to the splashdown test section. Please fix this ASAP Jarrod Baniqued (he/him) (talk) 00:15, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We need to update a lot of old info

The intro states that this article is about the MPCV version of Orion, but some of the references are about the older versions. We need to put the older stuff in some sort of "history" section and make sure the main stuff is current. I think the most egregious problem is the crew size. MPCV has a crew size of four. I will start making changes. I'm fairly sure that the Orion Reference Guide should be the main reference. Comments? -Arch dude (talk) 21:24, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed two ancient refs. Each was used only once and the info is obsolete, but someone might want them in the history section?^[1]^[2] -Arch dude (talk) 21:56, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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^ "Preliminary Report Regarding NASA's Space Launch System and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle" (PDF). NASA. January 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
^ Moskowitz, Clara (November 2014). "Deep Space or Bust". Scientific American. 311 (6): 20. Bibcode:2014SciAm.311f..20M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1214-20. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

Modularity of Orion

Found that very nice image on X. Could make a nice diagram for the article. Hektor (talk) 08:10, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear and unsourced

Apart from that most of the intro has no source at all, what is meant by "Orion can last up to 21 days undocked and up to six months docked"?? Docked to what? ISS, upper stage, gateway or whatever? 47.69.66.56 (talk) 11:20, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[report-1] "Preliminary Report Regarding NASA's Space Launch System and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle" (PDF). NASA. January 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2011.

[Deep_Space_or_Bust-2] Moskowitz, Clara (November 2014). "Deep Space or Bust". Scientific American. 311 (6): 20. Bibcode:2014SciAm.311f..20M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1214-20. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

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