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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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Bobbi Newell 7 years ago (edited)
Oh wow, didn't notice the teacup and saucer that Arthur-naut is holding till you asked how he's going to drink it! I was thinking of the substance Arthur Dent got from the food dispenser on the Heart of Gold that was "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
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Deborah McMullen 7 years ago
Hilariously well done homage to the Hitchhiker’s Guide — brilliant inclusion of 42! Truly the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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Abbey Impson 7 years ago
front left....with the red light saber. graduated high school with him
Kenny Kulbiski 7 years ago
Wait......what? I thought Anakin killed everybody at Jedi high school.
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Alayni Panda'lor 7 years ago
Guy on the lower left sooo looks like Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager.
Tara Lehman 7 years ago
I do find it immensely entertaining that NASA had to buy full Jedi costumes to create this
John Montgomery 7 years ago
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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N S 7 years ago
got a bit chubby, NASA training aint what it used to be, sigh
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BusLady 7 years ago
I could have married that nice boy in my hometown and become a housewife.
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Diane DesAutels 7 years ago
They weren't in the Armageddon movie poster they're copying, so...
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BusLady 7 years ago
I've never seen that movie, I should watch it. I like Bruce Willis.
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Alayni Panda'lor 7 years ago
Those are Next Generation uniforms. Red uniform indicates Command.
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Drew Woodall 7 years ago
wait why are they using the NX-01 Enterprise while wearin the TNG uniforms for the NCC-1701 D?
Stuart Young 7 years ago
Right. They would come closer to the NX-01 timeframe wearing blue jumpsuits.
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Allen Steadham 7 years ago
What's funny is matching TNG uniforms with the NX class starship! But at least they can go Warp 5...
Joe DeVuono 7 years ago
It's red shirts in the original series. These are Next Gen, so it's the gold shirts who get killed off.
BusLady 7 years ago
Where no one has gone before. I hope she's wearing more clothes than Uhura, whose pants were apparently lost at the cleaners.
Bobbi Newell 7 years ago
That's awesome, just one more way Roddenberry and ST affected our culture :D
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Jackie O'Sullivan 7 years ago
on the Abbey road album neither did one of the Beatles .
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John Cook 7 years ago
What universe are they in? Tree shadows are right to left, people shadows are mostly front to back with a little to the left.
Jeanneke van Berkel 7 years ago
A solar system with two suns. Apparently that's where the Beatles came from.
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Rogelio Armendariz 3 years ago
In the cover of the album they're referencing, one of the Beatles is walking barefoot
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Halestorm 7 years ago
Perhaps if she lets down her hair we can all get to the moon?
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Phoenix Shadowhunter 5 years ago
Dang. Can you imagine being in space and having all that hair. It would just, like, float around all the time. Like... in the movies!
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Janetinabasket 7 years ago
My mind is blown! These are fantastic and this is my personal favorite! If they use the matrix, do they still need a ship?
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Anthony Canney 7 years ago
What makes this better is I read it as "expedition THIRSTY" and I was like WELL OKAY then the high seas ARE salt water..
Darren Smith 7 years ago
Shiver me timbers. Dan Burbank is creeping me out as "McAffee Bonkers in Belize"
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Anne Rouffignac 7 years ago
They didn't copy anything for this one: http://mentalfloss.com/article/71448/these-9-nasa-posters-give-astronauts-celebrity-treatment
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Daric Apai (Darquestar1) 7 years ago
Can you imagine looking out the window even remotely toward the sun while it is totally unfiltered by earth atmosphere?
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Amaranthim Talon 7 years ago
hmm- no pretty flowered bonnets or brown shirts though...
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Colin D (punkmuppet) 6 years ago
Noguchi! Creamer! You better be doing some awkward leg movements back there!
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未周 陸 7 years ago
Reminding me of "Golden Snitch" in "Harry Potter", though.
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Cody Eriksen 7 years ago
Looks like the guy that plays Biff of Back to the Future... or for you Millie's, the Senator from Legends of Tomorrow.
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Daric Apai (Darquestar1) 7 years ago
I thought that said Gary Coleman and did a double take thinking I somehow missed him in the image.
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Wyndmere 7 years ago
The camera man reads the light meter off his head to make the right adjustments. My brother is a photographer - this works.
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Edwin Quantrall 7 years ago
"The Expedition!" "What a show!" "The Expedition!" "Hey let's go!" "The Expedition will give you something to seeeeeeeee!!!"
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Scott Wenger 7 years ago
Navy seal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cassidy
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Ken Miller 7 years ago
They sent a SEAL into space, damn what they preparing for and did they want to kill
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Jacqueline Conway 7 years ago
It’s just lovely that NASA has a bit of creative fun with each crew by making these movie posters for each expedition.
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What do you think ?
Elizabeth 7 years ago
Just a bunch of geeks doing geek things and having fun. I'm sure everyone in these posters LOVED them!
Jill 7 years ago
This is what happens when you let scientists and engineers have fun....Nasa was asking for it!
danielw 7 years ago
'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.
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I love these!! I want one of each!@ True heroes, every last one of them!
Michael Walsh 7 years ago
"Fair warning the results are quite cringy, making it hard to believe that these images are actually real." Seriously?? They're a hoot!
Bobbi Newell 7 years ago
Cringy? These people perform their jobs in extremely unforgiving conditions. Let 'em have some fun!
Moshe Matitya 7 years ago
These are incredibly cool! They aren't "awkward" at all, and shame on you guys for saying they are. I love them. :-)
Elizabeth 7 years ago
Just a bunch of geeks doing geek things and having fun. I'm sure everyone in these posters LOVED them!
Jill 7 years ago
This is what happens when you let scientists and engineers have fun....Nasa was asking for it!
danielw 7 years ago
'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.
Load More Replies... Amaranthim Talon 7 years ago
I love these!! I want one of each!@ True heroes, every last one of them!
Michael Walsh 7 years ago
"Fair warning the results are quite cringy, making it hard to believe that these images are actually real." Seriously?? They're a hoot!
Bobbi Newell 7 years ago
Cringy? These people perform their jobs in extremely unforgiving conditions. Let 'em have some fun!
Moshe Matitya 7 years ago
These are incredibly cool! They aren't "awkward" at all, and shame on you guys for saying they are. I love them. :-)
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