What was the first space-related thing you did?

[Lunar_Lander]

The title pretty much says it: What was the first thing in your life you did that was space-related (dreaming about a space mission or being an astronaut counts too!)

The first thing I did was when we got Internet in 2001 and still had an Acorn A3010 computer alongside. I somehow learned of Pioneer 2 and it's short flight into glory. Then I went to the A3010, opened up it's console and typed in random commands to which the computer responded with lines like "Insufficient information for this command", and printed it out. Then I pretended to myself that Pioneer 2's last transmissions looked like that .

 

[garyw]

This will reveal my age - watching the ASTP mission launch.

 

[lennartsmit]

I think it was launching the Challenger with Orbiter. My dad introduced me to it.

 

[bwog]

Looking at the stars?

I really don't know. Maybe it was a TV show.

 

[Urwumpe]

I watched Columbia land in Edwards in TV.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Hrm, probably it was in 1st grade when I just had a vague awareness of the Space Shuttle, I remember my mom telling me the shuttle didn't launch due to weather and I told that to my 1st grade teacher that day.
But what really kicked off my interest in spaceflight was my 3rd grade class watching STS-95, John Glenn's second spaceflight. I had knowledge of everything, but it had never "come together" before like this caused it to.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

My mom said I was enamoured by the Apollo 11 landing sitting in the floor in diapers. She's told me I couldn't keep my eyes off the television. So I've basically been a "space-nut" since birth.

 

[jedidia]

Hell, I can't remember. I was dreaming of stars and little green men long before I played my first computer game or watched my first star trek episode. Space has allways fascinated me...

 

[SiberianTiger]

Looking at pictures of rockets and spacecrafts in a book for children.

 

[T.Neo]

Being born?

My place of birth is Earth... and Earth is in space...

 

[Artlav]

Reading a kid's book about space flight and it's potentials, around 5 yo. I thought it was all real and happening, and eventually got quite disappointed that it was only speculations.

 

[ThatGuy]

The earliest thing I remember (space related and otherwise) is going to the landing of STS-65 when I was 3.

 

[astrosammy]

I think it was seeing some Hubble images or launch coverage of some Shuttle-Mir mission on tv.

 

[RangerPL]

Watching Apollo 13 (film) with my dad and then building a plastic model of the LEM.

 

[Dickie]

Watching Apollo 13 (film) with my dad and then building a plastic model of the LEM.

Heh, oddly enough mine was watching Apollo 13 as well.

Since then I've lapped up anything space related, be it software, books, films, TV documentaries...

 

[Rocketman527]

I accidentally found Saturn in my crappy telescope, found Orbiter through a 100 best free games list, and was recommended Cosmos.

All over one summer.

When I'm old and my grandkids/robot clones ask me what made me me, I'll tell them about that summer. It makes me misty eyed just thinking about it

 

[jinglesassy]

My first space-related thing was about 7 years ago with a telescope looked at the moon still got that telescope just a bit dusty i wasnt that intrested in space back then but now i am a space-maniac :lol:

 

[ICBM]

I think it was when I got a toy shuttle for my 4th birthday. It came with its own tow cars and lift setup.

 

[loyalj]

Artlav, sounds like we had the same first experience. :thumbsdown:

When I was a kid (circa the early 1980s) I remember thinking that capsules and saturn v rockets were the stuff of space history. The shuttle and it's sleek airplane shape was the future of space travel and our generation would have planes like this to travel around. Even if it was just point to point sub orbital or short LEO trips.

The older I got the more it became clear this was all a pipe dream. With the current excitement that's been brewing since things like SpaceX's progress, Scaled taking the X-Prize and signing contracts I've been more hopeful once again.

 

[Unstung]

My interest probably begun with aircraft when I was very young, not even two years of age, an interest in flight.