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Height incorrectly stated as Width (in Infobox)

The height of the orbiter (17.86 m) is incorrectly shown as its width. I tried editing to change 'Width' to 'Height', but the entry just disappears when I preview. Can somebody with more experience (and an account) check and fix that please?

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The result was: rejected by Szmenderowiecki (talk) 02:46, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that one of NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters has more than 2.5 million moving parts? Source: https://phys.org/news/2011-07-shuttle-complex-machine-built.html
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Created by InvadingInvader (talk). Self-nominated at 02:10, 26 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Unfortunately, while the hook is interesting to a broad audience, the article does not qualify for DYK. The article has not been created, expanded five-fold, or improved to good article status within the last seven days. As this appears to be your first DYK nomination, I suggest you read WP:DYK and understand the guidelines so that your future nominations will be more successful. If you need any help, the DYKchecker tool is very useful in determining if an article is eligible or not. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:19, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Replica Orbiters

There is also a full size replica of the left half of Endeavour at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. I think it would be worth adding it to the list of replicas.

Here is an article from the Cosmosphere that mentions this: https://cosmo.org/blog/view/the-final-launch-of-the-space-shuttle-endeavour Rmcmullin (talk) 21:55, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's surprisingly another missing replica. It goes by the name Ambassador and was at the KSC until the late 90s when it became a traveling exhibit. No clue what happened to it afterwards, but there are some photos still around.

Alamy Stock Photo of Ambassador

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobbex/41365012161

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amx566/49219369447 TsarDudebroII (talk) 01:03, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]