Michael Tarantolo Engineering Timeline

  • Day of Birth

    The day where humanity finally had a purpose.
  • First Christmas

  • Huygens Spacecraft Lands on Titan

    Huygens Spacecraft Lands on Titan
    Photo Taken by lander. the Huygens lander was attached to the Cassini Saturn probe and landed on Titan in 2005. These were the first pictures from Titan's surface and showed multiple methane oceans and rivers along with water ice.
  • Brother's Birthday

  • NASA Kepler craft launched

    NASA Kepler craft launched
    Mean't to observe distant planets and anomalies. This telescope was supposedly hacked and veered off course and was able to be saved by programmers at NASA. It is in an earth-trailing heliocentric orbit (meaning it is in the same orbit around the Sun as the Earth, and trails slightly behind)
  • CERN Large Hadron Collider First Research Run

    CERN Large Hadron Collider First Research Run
    Took place from 30 March, 2010 to 13 February, 2013. The large hadron collider is the largest particle accelerator ever built and an engineering masterpiece.
  • Space Shuttle Atlantis Final Flight

    Space Shuttle Atlantis Final Flight
    This was the final launch of the Space Shuttle, ending the shuttle program. It carried up STS-51-J into low earth orbit.
  • Got My Second Dog Named Roxy

    Got My Second Dog Named Roxy
    Not certain on the exact date but it was this month
  • SpaceX, launched its Dragon C2+ mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).

    SpaceX, launched its Dragon C2+ mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
    This was a resupply mission to the International Space Station, and the first flight to the I.S.S. of the Dragon V1
  • NASA Curiosity Rover lands on Mars

    NASA Curiosity Rover lands on Mars
    The curiosity rover is still working to this day and has sent back many pictures from the martian surface. It is an engineering achievement due how it was landed on the surface via a sky-crane and it's ability to survive on Mars for years.
  • Started High School

  • Got My Third Dog Named Moses

    Got My Third Dog Named Moses
    Not certain on exact day but it was this month
  • NVIDIA Gefore GTX 1080 Release

    NVIDIA Gefore GTX 1080 Release
    This is the most powerful graphics card currently available to the public. It has 8 gigabytes of video ram and has pascal architecture.
  • Elon Musk Announces Plans to Colonize Mars and the ITS Spacecraft

    Elon Musk Announces Plans to Colonize Mars and the ITS Spacecraft
    I.T.S. (Interplanetary Transport System). This is a 2 stage, fully reusable rocket that is larger than the Saturn V and capable of sending up to 100 humans to Mars in around 100 days.