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Lady Astor: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it !"

As the preset of the Halo Universe is in space; and because I'm currently studying Aerospace Engineering at degree level, I thought it would be nice to meet other members that have a similar interest in space or study similar subjects!

Prior to making this thread I searched for another thread with space as a discussion subject but couldn't find one, sorry if there is another place for this type of discussion.

Some things to get started...

Q: Why should I care about space?

A:There are a number of reasons that you should care about space. It has the possibility to provide untold amounts of resources for the human race, is a great place to perform research and to develop new products, or to manufacture things that can't be easily built on Earth. It also provides a frontier for mankind to explore, even just here in our own solar system. Fields that feed into space science are also a large producer of jobs, with corporations like SpaceX, Bigelow Aerospace, Virgin Galactic, and of course the governmental space agencies providing dozens of manufacturing and engineering jobs. Not to mention research positions in fields like astronomy and astrophysics.

Q: Has anything useful came from space?

A: Well, a lot of things, actually! Digital cameras, flat screens, advances in medicine and manufacturing, GPS, and much more!

History of space launches

A few key points that would be good to be aware of for discussion are:

October 4, 1957 - Sputnik 1 is launched, becoming the world's first artificial satellite.
November 3, 1957 - Sputnik 2 is launched, carrying the first living being, Laika the dog, into space.
January 31, 1958 - Explorer 1 is launched, becoming the first American satellite.
April 12, 1961 - Vostok 1 carries the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin.
May 5, 1961 - Mercury 3 carries Alan Shepard into space, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
December 21, 1968 - Apollo 8 launches, it will carry the first humans to leave Earth orbit and travel to the moon and back.
July 16, 1969 - Apollo 11 is launched, landing the first humans on the Moon.
April 12, 1981 - The Space Shuttle is launched for the first time.
January 28, 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates during launch due to an O-ring failure on the right SRB.
April 24, 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit aboard the orbiter Discovery.
February 1, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart during reentry into the atmosphere, with all hands lost.
September 28, 2008 - SpaceX's Falcon 1 spacecraft makes it's first successful flight.
June 4, 2010 - SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft aboard their Falcon 9 rocket becomes the first commercial spacecraft to make a complete orbit and reenter successfully.
July 8, 2011 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on STS-135, the final Shuttle mission to be flown.
May 25, 2012 - SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with the ISS.
August 5/6, 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and the Curiosity rover land on Mars.

I will hyperlink some photos later on if the discussion picks up enough.



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  • 01.01.2013 3:40 PM PDT

Still hoping there's a Mass Relay past Pluto.

  • 01.01.2013 3:41 PM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

*Shines WinyPit82 symbol*

  • 01.01.2013 3:42 PM PDT

Skylon confirmed greatest thing ever.

  • 01.01.2013 3:43 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

  • 01.01.2013 3:43 PM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.

Well I can tell you I study the space between a woman's point in space-time and another point!

Essentially travel time if you didn't understand the reference...

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Lady Astor: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it !"

I study related subjects like this day in and day out at university, but mostly aircraft based subjects at this minute in time - you wouldn't believe how deep the rabbit hole actually goes

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  • 01.01.2013 3:44 PM PDT

Mreh.

Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't coming back.

  • 01.01.2013 3:45 PM PDT
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Lady Astor: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it !"

Mars landscape is astonishing, hopefully one day it will be colonised.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/victoria2_opportunity_bi g.jpg

  • 01.01.2013 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Viron
Mars landscape is astonishing, hopefully one day it will be colonised.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/victoria2_opportunity_bi g.jpg


I think we got some very rich guy funding that kind of thing already.

  • 01.01.2013 3:55 PM PDT

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Lady Astor: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it !"

Posted by: Vampire Master

Posted by: Viron
Mars landscape is astonishing, hopefully one day it will be colonised.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/victoria2_opportunity_bi g.jpg


I think we got some very rich guy funding that kind of thing already.


I know that Richard Branson is rich beyond belief and spends a lot of funds in weird exciting projects like that - aren't the first Virgin Galatic flights launching this year?

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Remember what Sergeant Vau told us: Eat your vegtable capsules.


Posted by: Viron
Mars landscape is astonishing, hopefully one day it will be colonised.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/victoria2_opportunity_bi g.jpg

Adeptus Mechanicus.
All I have to say.

  • 01.01.2013 4:19 PM PDT
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Lady Astor: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it !"

Haha defo Imperium work there

  • 01.01.2013 4:24 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

Aliens.

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