NASA Space Tourism Posters

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Post by dpeck » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 4:18 PM UTC

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Post by rogersmith » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:06 PM UTC

NASA really fell through. How did they go from grand achievements like faking a moon landing to childish-pretend-play-we-have-space-tourism-now posters?

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Post by inanutshellus » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

These are amazing. A huge part of the value of NASA itself is that it inherently represents pride in humanity--our accomplishments, and aspirations.

Here, NASA reminds us that there is still room for new aspirations in a culture that currently is hung-up on post-apocalyptic doom-and-gloom futures.

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Post by telecuda » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

Looking forward to when the posters are available for purchase. I'm not seeing any in http://thejplstore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path...

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Post by mattbeckman » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:29 PM UTC

SpaceX had "throwback" posters in early 2015, and it feels like NASA designers were inspired by those to do the same.

http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/15/8613099/spacex-made-s...

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Post by DblPlusUngood » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:30 PM UTC

These are a lot of fun!

The doom marine in me demands a poster for Phobos!

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Post by QuantumRoar » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:34 PM UTC

telecuda wrote: post #4

Looking forward to when the posters are available for purchase. I'm not seeing any in http://thejplstore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path...

There are PDFs and ridiculously large TIFFs available for you to download and print [1]. Click on one of the images to see the respective download link. Just bring the PDF to a professional print shop and pick a size. At least that's what I'm going to do :)

[1] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/

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Post by nfriedly » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

NASA / JPL put out some beautiful stuff. I used one of their space images from http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/ as the background for a small game I made a year or so ago.

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Post by ohitsdom » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

Love work like this.

Somewhat related, I also love these vintage posters of planetary missions by the Chop Shop Store.

http://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/space-exploration-t...

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Post by jonesetc » Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

QuantumRoar wrote: post #7

telecuda wrote: post #4

Looking forward to when the posters are available for purchase. I'm not seeing any in http://thejplstore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path...

There are PDFs and ridiculously large TIFFs available for you to download and print [1]. Click on one of the images to see the respective download link. Just bring the PDF to a professional print shop and pick a size. At least that's what I'm going to do :) [1] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/

> ridiculously large TIFFs

These are oddly not available for "51 Pegasi b" and beyond though. Only PDFs for those.