Science Posters

NASA 60th Anniversary Tribute Posters - Created by Mike McCain

Astronomy 🪐 🔭

“What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’”

— Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)

Lunar gold rush could create conflict on the ground if we don't act now – new research

When it comes to the Moon, everyone wants the same things. Not in the sense of having shared goals, but in the sense that all players target the same strategic sites—state agencies and the private sector alike. That’s because, whether you want to do science or make money, you will need things such as water and light.

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

to the moon, and back.

Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 40/S - EVA (other images)  Project Apollo Archive

I’m gone but I’m not 🌙

you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba

now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one  

1967 cover art by Jerome Podwil to A. Bertram Chandler’s The Road to the Rim