My Personal Artifact Assignment

The picture I choose for my personal artifact assignment is a picture of my old HALO-3 helmet based of the video game HALO which is a sci-fi & military science fiction first-person shooter video game. The game deals with inter- galactic warfare which also involves fictional characters to travel around in space, explore new discoveries and findings in planets. The reason why I choose this helmet as my artifact is that it relates to our coarse earth and space a lot as it merely almost looks like a future of what could be of a astronauts helmet and through the game and in the course they also show resemblance of how life is in space, different theories and the game also sheds some light on how the future of space travel may be in the years yet

to come. The helmet is a great resource for this course as it seems visually very sci-fi and also lets you know certain equipment space travelers (astronauts) need to survive in space. An astronaut’s helmet plays a unique and significant role in safety and survival of an astronaut. The helmet protects the astronaut from harmful solar and ultra-violet radiation; as well it is made of polycarbonate a thick layer which is strong as bulletproof glass which protects the wearer of the helmet from debris and dysfunctional equipment. Nevertheless, full exposure to vacuum in space can be insanely harmful leading to lung damage being one of the many side effects. The helmet provides protection for the astronaut from the dangerously low pressure space. Without the helmet, internal pressure of the astronaut’s body will push blood vessels and tissue outward. The helmet is one of the many items at home the reminds me of space, I further want to peruse a career in space-science and I think taking this course will help increase my knowledge and understanding of space, earth and cosmology and I think talking about astronauts is a start and hopefully in the years to come space exploration would become more accessible and resource efficient.