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Lafayette1: /* 2010s */ Pier 54 was Cunard's and where Carpathia arrived at. Pier 59 was White Star's dock for Titanic.

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2010s: Pier 54 was Cunard's and where Carpathia arrived at. Pier 59 was White Star's dock for Titanic.

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 !style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event
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-|align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-7 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.
+|align=center|2011||align=center|21 July||Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding STS-135 and ending NASA's 30 year Space Shuttle program. The ISA adopts a new numbering system for its flights, beginning with STS-163, a final mission for the Department of Defense, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. All future ISA Space Shuttle missions launch from LC-39D and E at Kennedy Space Center and SLC-6 at Vandenberg is decommissioned.
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 |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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 |align=center rowspan="2"|1990||align=center rowspan="2"|24 April||Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on STS-31, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
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-| style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 7 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.
+| style="background:#d3edff;"|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is destroyed shortly after liftoff, killing the 5 astronauts onboard and destroying the Hubble Space Telescope. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.
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 |align=center|1990||align=center|15 November||style="background:#d3edff;"|The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' Accident releases its report and submits it to President George H. W. Bush. The cause of the accident cannot be conclusively identified, but it is most likely believed to be a major manufacturing defect in the vehicle's External Tank which caused a catastrophic failure and in-flight breakup of the vehicle. Despite safety modifications introduced after the ''Challenger'' accident, the report concludes that a reevaluation of the entire Space Transportation System is required before America can again launch astronauts into space.

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 |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.
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-|align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.
+|align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59 of the Chelsea Piers, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.
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 |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.

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 |align=center|2004||align=center|5 April||style="background:#d3edff;"|The SSC Large Ion Collision Experiment (SLICER) comes online after multiple construction and testing delays. The detector, designed to collide lead ions at extremely high energies, is designed to shed light on the earliest moments of the Universe by generating temperatures hot enough to produce quark-gluon plasma. Early results are uploaded to the SSCL's website for international collaboration and for general study by scientists around the world.
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-|align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 54, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.
+|align=center|2007||align=center|5 June||Magnolia Parks and Entertainment announces plans to commission a replica of RMS ''Titanic'' from Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The company plans to moor the ship at a specially built pier on the Atchafalaya River near the city of Magnolia Bend, Louisiana until a study concludes that extensive and impractical dredging of the river will be needed. Alternate plans are placed in motion to construct a museum in New York at Pier 59, and the company enters into talks with the City of New York to begin construction to open the museum in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking.
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 |align=center|2008||align=center|September||style="background:#edffd3;"|As the subprime mortgage crisis continues to rattle financial markets in the United States, Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy on September 15th, causing the Dow Jones to plunge. American International Group (AIG) is taken over by the Federal Reserve the next day and worried investors begin to make runs on banks, leading Washington Mutual to declare bankruptcy. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a $700 billion proposal for the US Treasury to purchase troubled assets and supply cash directly to banks to avoid further collapses, is rejected by the House of Representatives on September 29th, sending the Dow plunging by 770 points and throwing markets around the world into chaos. The Great Recession begins to rock the United States.

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 |align=center|2011||align=center|23 December||[[Phoenix 4]], carrying two Americans, a Russian and a Finn lands on the Moon at Schroter's Valley, becoming the first manned mission to do so since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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-|align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 54. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.
+|align=center|2012||align=center|April||In a huge celebration, a replica of the RMS ''Titanic'' sets sail from her construction dock in Belfast and, after undergoing sea trials, sails to Southampton. Exactly 100 years after the original ship set sail, the replica follows the same route, sailing to Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before continuing on into the Atlantic, escorted by support ships for the journey. On April 15th, the ship stops directly over the wreck site of the original ship and a ceremony is held to honor the lives lost a century earlier. The ship and her escorts arrive in New York Harbor on April 18th, and the ship is permanently docked at the museum at Pier 59. Work begins on the replica’s final conversion to a museum ship.
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 |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star

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 |align=center|2002||align=center|4 July||style="background:#d3edff;"|At a press conference at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, researchers from the SDC and GEM experiments announce the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson at an energy of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup> and 126.0 ± 0.6 GeV/''c''<sup>2</sup>, respectively, with a significance of 5 sigma (a probability of a chance result being as strong being less than 1 in 3 million). In attendance at the event is Peter Higgs. President Bush praises the discovery as a national and international triumph.
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-|align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#d3edff;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.
+|align=center|2002||align=center|August||style="background:#edffd3;"|After failing to secure an affordable rocket booster in Russia for use in an attempt to send an experimental greenhouse to Mars, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is founded in California by Elon Musk. The company announces its intentions to build low cost rockets and open up access to space to wider markets than before.
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 |align=center|2003||align=center|1 February||Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' is destroyed during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. An investigation is immediately launched and all future Space Shuttle missions are grounded indefinitely.

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 |align=center rowspan="2"|1938||align=center rowspan="2"|Summer||style="background:#edffd3;"|((Bombing of Reskont goes here.))
-Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates at 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.
+Shortly after dawn, a ship belonging to a rogue hoomiku group known as the League of the Emerald Claw enters orbit over Ishonko and, using forged Otonichi IFF transponder codes, begins an approach to the main spaceport at Reskont. Minutes later, the ship violates the airspace over the city and detonates a 157 megaton thermonuclear device directly over the mausoleum of the Great Scribe, the most revered figure in all of Otonichi history. The mausoleum and a large portion of the city are destroyed, and approximately 1.5 million Otonichi die instantly, with a further 750,000 succumbing to the effects of acute radiation sickness. Despite attempts by Hoomiku high command to distance themselves from the group, the attack prompts King Zalkyo Jeskalt to terminate all negotiations. The king vows that the destruction of Reskont will be avenged with extreme prejudice.
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 |((Time travel to recover Scribe/Archives goes here.))

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 |align=center|2012||align=center|18 December||An international team of astronomers at the [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]] announce the discovery of five planets in orbit around Tau Ceti, including one within the habitable zone of the star
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-|align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is trace back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".
+|align=center|2013||align=center|12 September||A number of odd stock market trends and minor irregularities comes to the attention of an artificial intelligence working with Project Looking Glass. After investigating, the source is traced back to one Melor Oliver. After making contact, it is revealed that Oliver has invented a prototype of a time machine and is using it to send stock information approximately 2 minutes back in time to himself in order to make a profit on the stock market. After an initial series of missteps, a meeting is arranged between Project Looking Glass director Acker Robicheaux and Oliver, after which he agrees to work with the ISA to develop the technology for use on a larger scale. A new division of Looking Glass is organized and dubbed "Project Hourglass".
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 |align=center|2013||align=center|10 October||With work rapidly progressing in secret on a full scale version of a time machine capable of transporting objects the size of a person backwards in time, an artifact being restored at the RMS ''Titanic'' Museum in New York comes to the attention of Project Hourglass. Originally retrieved from the wreck site of ''Titanic'' by an illegal French salvaging operation in 1995, the heavily corroded object contains a plate of a material identified as titanium with alien writing on it eventually identified to be Hoomiku in origin. As the artifact predates the arrival of the Hoomiku on Earth by more than 30 years, no suitable explanation exists for why it was on the ship or even what the device was. Planning begins for an expedition into the past to retrieve the artifact before the sinking and either replace it with a replica, or study it and return it to the ship before the sinking.

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 |align=center rowspan="2"|2008||align=center rowspan="2"|4 November||
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