Have You Loved Space All Your Life........

[Aleinikov]

Have You Loved Space All Your Life....

It all begun for me when I was 4 years old and watched the Apollo 11 mission live in TV. In Germany it was 4 o clock in the morning and my father waked me up and set me in front of the TV. Right after that in that night i remember to watch the moon in the sky and thinking about that there are people walking on it right now. And that with my little brain. Since then I was waiting for the year 2000 when the future and all those SciFi will become real, but now 43 years old I am a little bit disappointed what we have achived...ok we have a space station now...but i hope to see mankind back to the moon within the next 30 years...before i am dead...
and being a "Nerd" does it mean: you have no friends? For than NO i am not a nerd, but all my friends think that "Orbiter" is BORING...there is no shooting or big explosions...

 

[Xantcha]

actually no became interested in space only because of orbiter.

 

[AstroCam]

Yes.
Sometimes i just go outside and stare at the moon for a bit, always makes me feel good....
Oh and i also nit-pick SciFi movies. A LOT. That clminated in my schouting out 'PHYSICS ERROR!' every time a, well, physics error popped up on screen. This in joke lasted for a week before it died. Horribly. :sorry:

Oh, and Pilot7893, you have asperger's syndrome? Me too! Small world huh?
Whups, gotta get back to my Stats work

 

[Matt]

1.No, I think I really got into space stuff a few years back after I dicovered orbiter. But I loved scientific and technical stuff all my life, so I sort of had a passing interest in space.
2. I have never been superiorly smart, so I couldn't be bullied for that, although I am now doing a degree in physics. I was only bullied for other reasons (I'm not sure what theyt were, and I don't think bullies are either).

 

[RisingFury]

Been interested in space all my life. I started thinking about how rockets can stay in orbit at quite an early age. Didn't quite understand the transition from going up to staying up back then.

 

[Jarvitä]

Been interested in space all my life. I started thinking about how rockets can stay in orbit at quite an early age. Didn't quite understand the transition from going up to staying up back then.

Simple, what goes up, falls down. Some stuff is just permanently falling horizontally to the surface of the body it's falling onto.

 

[RocketMan_Len]

I've been a 'space cookie' ever since I watched the Apollo 11 landing, live on TV, at the age of (almost) 5. I got into rocketry when I was 9, and was doodling future-tech spacecraft all through highschool.

Was I teased about it? Maybe a little... particularly when I pointed out to my 5th-grade Science teacher that the Moon DOES rotate. But I was teased even more about my joining of the Air Cadets - which is akin to the Boy Scouts, but with weapons and flight familiarization on top. My short hair and neat appearance got me pegged as a 'war-monger' by some of my peers.

Never bothered me much, though... hot air from a buffoon. :lol:

 

[nasakid]

i have corrected my teach many times!

 

[Istochnikov]

Have You Loved Space All Your Life. If Yes, When U Were A Kid Have You Been Called A Nerd?/Been Bullied for SUPERIOR SMARTNESS!!!!!


Yes And Yes

1: With Franklin Chang-Díaz flying in the space for the very first time, the Challenger explosion, the Giotto fly-by of the Halley comet, the MIR space Station, all being realized in the last stages of my gestation... i should say YES :lol:

In fact, my loveship with space was born when Chang-Díaz flew his third spaceflight Now, i hope work for him upon i graduate :speakcool:

2: I don't like presumming for this, but my childhood was very tormentous because i have an IQ of 170 :blink: It wasn't funny at all hthedrama:

 

[lindemherz]

The oldest thing my memory can recall is watching STS-26 launch when I was two and a half years old. My first book ever was The Encyclopaedia of Soviet Spacecraft, by Douglas Hart (no, really, and it is a good thing that my father is an astronomy freak so he knew where to find something to please me). All my life I've been working to find a way to make it to space, anyway I can.

So, yeah. I've loved space before I even knew what love was (one of my girls even told me once that she always felt that she was the affair in my marriage with the sky - ouch).

Fortunately, I've never recieved the short end of the stick for it, and most of my friends actually call me the coolest nerd ever :lol: