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Turns Out NASA Creates Posters For Every Space Mission And They’re Hilariously Awkward
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Space Flight Awareness program is a project, curated by NASA, meant for NASA employees. An inside job, so to say. Its purpose is to motivate their people working on space missions and to make them feel important. And we do understand that, as you can start feeling pretty insignificant and alone when orbiting the Earth in solitude.
One of the SFA's motivational and just plain fun activities is making super cool posters for every NASA mission. These funny posters were mainly used to boost the crew's morale and were also hung in NASA facilities and other government organizations. However, when astronauts got bored with the standard group photos, they decided to spice things up a bit. And what's a better way to do that other than throwing in some pop culture references or mocking famous movie posters? And no, space exploration experts are not your boring stuck-up scientists!
Fair warning the results are quite cringy, making it hard to believe that these images are actually for real. Scroll below to see the hilarious NASA posters and upvote your favorites!
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front left....with the red light saber. graduated high school with him
Wait......what? I thought Anakin killed everybody at Jedi high school.
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Guy on the lower left sooo looks like Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager.
I do find it immensely entertaining that NASA had to buy full Jedi costumes to create this
I wouldn't be surprised if at least most of them already had the costumes. Star Trek has inspired many people to be astronauts. Why wouldn't Star Wars do the same?
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I thought that said Gary Coleman and did a double take thinking I somehow missed him in the image.
It’s just lovely that NASA has a bit of creative fun with each crew by making these movie posters for each expedition.
Just a bunch of geeks doing geek things and having fun. I'm sure everyone in these posters LOVED them!
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Actually, they're nerds. Technically, geeks are circus sideshow performers that were not deformed in any way and therefore, not a freak
They're neither. They're heroes. I hate the idea that this is only a geek or a nerd thing. These are the sort of people and organisations that will propel the human race into social advancement, we have to stop thinking of them as a niche group who are just obsessed with maths, they ought to have celeb status.
Much like many other words, geek has multiple definitions and the circus performer one is quite obviously not the one intended in this context. The definition "an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity " fits very well.
I spaced out for a bit looking at some of these
This is what happens when you let scientists and engineers have fun....Nasa was asking for it!
'let'. No...this is NASA realized that if t hey don't 'let' their highly educated, trained and probably overly intelligent people have some fun... other pranks are bound happen.
I think these should be displayed in grade schools.
I love these!! I want one of each!@ True heroes, every last one of them!
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They're not awkward they're awesome.
They are white
These make me happy.
"Fair warning the results are quite cringy, making it hard to believe that these images are actually real." Seriously?? They're a hoot!
Cringy? These people perform their jobs in extremely unforgiving conditions. Let 'em have some fun!
These are incredibly cool! They aren't "awkward" at all, and shame on you guys for saying they are. I love them. :-)
It's because 90% of american's are too dumb to read anything but a comic book. If NASA didn't make the posters, no one would even known there's a new space mission.
These are brilliant! Hilariously bad and I bet everyone involved had so much fun blowing off steam making them. I’m so glad they shared them with us.
I have to admit that I don't know what some of these are supposed to be. :-(
That is my only complaint about this list...I wish they had put what movies they were spoofing.
Who knew there were so many missions? Crazy levels of cringe though. I feel embarrassment on their behalf!
WHATS CRINGE? THEYRE ALLFINEI
amazing collection
This completely made my day.
Nothing awkward or cringy about these. The writer of this article clearly doesn't know awesome when they see it. Rock on space geeks!
They missed out on another great space (and time) traveler...Dr. Who and his companions.
These are AWESOME! I bet they had so much FUN with these... they aren't cringe-worthy at all! Why do you have to rain on someone's fun?
the only person cringing is the beancounter that now has to figure out how the public got a hold of the pictures... revealing that astronauts are even more AWESOME.
I wonder if you can buy these posters from NASA? I'd like a couple of them.
I am thinking this is all fun and games; so I'm not one to criticize such things in a high stress mission. That aside I would hope they use such devices to generate interest at NASA. My only problem would be the budget on such fun and games; if I know my government spending (I do) the bill for these is astronomical. Perhaps such things should only be set-up when we actually have a USA launched vehicle? Most nations have little use for our pop-culture crap.
Can they PLEASE do a Tolkien themed poster???
Looks a little bit like asylum movie posters.;)
Can't wait to see the sharknado one.
Sigh. Ok
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The only thing they demonstrate is that scientists have a lame sense of humor. Preposterous! I'm a scientist and even though my sense of humor is clearly not the best, it is by no mean that bad... EDIT: The downvotes prove that my sens of humor is even shittier than I though! ;) And especially that I was utterly wrong, which is not news to me.
Just a bunch of geeks doing geek things and having fun. I'm sure everyone in these posters LOVED them!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Actually, they're nerds. Technically, geeks are circus sideshow performers that were not deformed in any way and therefore, not a freak
They're neither. They're heroes. I hate the idea that this is only a geek or a nerd thing. These are the sort of people and organisations that will propel the human race into social advancement, we have to stop thinking of them as a niche group who are just obsessed with maths, they ought to have celeb status.
Much like many other words, geek has multiple definitions and the circus performer one is quite obviously not the one intended in this context. The definition "an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity " fits very well.
I spaced out for a bit looking at some of these
This is what happens when you let scientists and engineers have fun....Nasa was asking for it!
'let'. No...this is NASA realized that if t hey don't 'let' their highly educated, trained and probably overly intelligent people have some fun... other pranks are bound happen.
I think these should be displayed in grade schools.
I love these!! I want one of each!@ True heroes, every last one of them!
screenshots
They're not awkward they're awesome.
They are white
These make me happy.
"Fair warning the results are quite cringy, making it hard to believe that these images are actually real." Seriously?? They're a hoot!
Cringy? These people perform their jobs in extremely unforgiving conditions. Let 'em have some fun!
These are incredibly cool! They aren't "awkward" at all, and shame on you guys for saying they are. I love them. :-)
It's because 90% of american's are too dumb to read anything but a comic book. If NASA didn't make the posters, no one would even known there's a new space mission.
These are brilliant! Hilariously bad and I bet everyone involved had so much fun blowing off steam making them. I’m so glad they shared them with us.
I have to admit that I don't know what some of these are supposed to be. :-(
That is my only complaint about this list...I wish they had put what movies they were spoofing.
Who knew there were so many missions? Crazy levels of cringe though. I feel embarrassment on their behalf!
WHATS CRINGE? THEYRE ALLFINEI
amazing collection
This completely made my day.
Nothing awkward or cringy about these. The writer of this article clearly doesn't know awesome when they see it. Rock on space geeks!
They missed out on another great space (and time) traveler...Dr. Who and his companions.
These are AWESOME! I bet they had so much FUN with these... they aren't cringe-worthy at all! Why do you have to rain on someone's fun?
the only person cringing is the beancounter that now has to figure out how the public got a hold of the pictures... revealing that astronauts are even more AWESOME.
I wonder if you can buy these posters from NASA? I'd like a couple of them.
I am thinking this is all fun and games; so I'm not one to criticize such things in a high stress mission. That aside I would hope they use such devices to generate interest at NASA. My only problem would be the budget on such fun and games; if I know my government spending (I do) the bill for these is astronomical. Perhaps such things should only be set-up when we actually have a USA launched vehicle? Most nations have little use for our pop-culture crap.
Can they PLEASE do a Tolkien themed poster???
Looks a little bit like asylum movie posters.;)
Can't wait to see the sharknado one.
Sigh. Ok
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
The only thing they demonstrate is that scientists have a lame sense of humor. Preposterous! I'm a scientist and even though my sense of humor is clearly not the best, it is by no mean that bad... EDIT: The downvotes prove that my sens of humor is even shittier than I though! ;) And especially that I was utterly wrong, which is not news to me.