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File:Water Survival Training—Ride, Resnik, Fisher, Sullivan, and Seddon.jpg[edit]
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Space exploration#Astronauts
Info created by NASA. This photograph was taken during three days of NASA Water Survival Training at Homestead Air Force Base in 31 July – 2 August 1978. That's why they look soaking wet, especially Fisher. They are conveniently arranged in order Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Margaret Rhea Seddon. After Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya, they were the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th women to go to space. Uploaded and nominated by Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) 08:13, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Support -- Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) 08:13, 4 November 2019 (UTC)- Support --Andrei (talk) 10:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Question - I'd like to know what the original size of this photo is (the archived link says 3,432 × 2,243 pixels, which is this file, but I'm unsure that was the size of the original positive, if that would make a difference). I seem to remember my brother enlarging photos in his home darkroom that were less grainy than this in the early 70s, but of course they also weren't historical and my memory could be false (I don't have any of those photos at my fingertips). Anyway, though, this photo seems quite grainy even for its period, to my eyes, so I'm not sure what to think. It looks fairly good at 70% of full screen on my 13-inch monitor, but even then, Judith Resnick is captured less well than the other women, because her darker skin tone is more affected by the grain. You can see that even in the thumbnail. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:32, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Oppose Not only the quality is awful (it seems to be a picture of a print, or a very bad scan), but also photographically this image is very average in my opinion. Normal shot, poor composition with cut feet, uninteresting light -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:05, 4 November 2019 (UTC)- Oppose per Basile, and not a remarkable historic moment --Uoaei1 (talk) 13:10, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per Basile and Uoaei above. --Cayambe (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per Basile --Fischer.H (talk) 17:16, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Basile and Uoaei --Boothsift 02:23, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) 04:07, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
