Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight/draftbox

Launch site merger

From Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight

Coulc you please explain somewhere the advantages you see to merging these separate articles? The topics are reasonably distinct from one another. Is expansion of the material on each topic's article another possibility? (sdsds - talk) 17:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They say mostly same things in different words. I think one article which covers the basics of the topic (place where spacecrafts/rocket are launched, no matter what its called) is better than many overlappping articles. Is there any significant difference between spaceport and rocket launch site which the current articles lack to mention? --Usp (talk) 21:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well of course the biggest differences are that rocket launch sites don't necessarily launch payloads into space, and spaceports don't necessarily involve any rocketry. The examples are e.g. model rocket launch sites on the one hand, and on the other the spaceports where the first "stage" of flight is propelled by means of aircraft engines, such as those which will be used on the Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo aircraft. Do those distinctions seem sufficient? (sdsds - talk) 02:47, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm aware of those differences, nevertheless they are all part of the same activity, space activity. And at least I would like to read about them in one generic article, with proper distiction between the types of launch sites. What is needed is good generic name if launch site in not acceptable. --Usp (talk) 10:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]