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In order to promote awareness of the American space program (oh, btw, America has a space program), NASA has launched (LAUNCHED!) a line of movie-themed posters but about their space missions. Sure, NASA. People are definitely about to get very excited about NASA. Most of the posters are space movie-themed. They look like the Armageddon poster, or a Star Trek poster. But there is also an Ocean’s 11 themed poster? And a RESERVOIR DOGS themed poster?! (“This summer, in space, everyone can hear you screaming because someone is severing your ear just off camera.”) For some reason, this Matrix-themed poster is my favorite, even though I suppose one could argue that it’s somehow more related to space than Reservoir Dogs, insofar as both The Matrix and the American space program are for nerds. I think I just like it because I like to imagine all of these highly-trained astrophysicists who have just made their lifelong dream come true by gaining admittance into the elite group of human beings to travel into space (Hi, Lance Bass!) only to have someone pull them aside and say, “Hey, put on this shiny patent leather trenchcoat and these awful sunglasses and make a total gas face. You know, for the kids!” Very cool. Not insulting or demeaning at all. Space is the place!
Someone needs to knock NASA’s lunch tray out of its hands and shove it into a locker. (Click through to enlarge. And thanks for the tip, Notsewfast.)
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Failure to launch.
Reminds me a lot of the READ posters in libraries. Do kids give a shit about posters anymore?
Haha. This comment is so great. What NASA needs is more delightfully bafoonish but ultimately charming men leaning playfully against a beautiful but frustrated woman looking at him askance with her arms crossed. It is just what the people want.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who knows that poster in such detail.
Are those our glasses, or are those our glasses?
And here I was, thinking that it wouldn’t get worse than “Matrix: Revolutions.”
It really can’t.
Does this mean they’re sending Keanu Reeves into space? Please?
I think these might have all been made at the NBC experience store. I got my head put on an American Gladiator and it looked pretty good.
I am of course imagining headphones-baby’s head on an American Gladiator and it looks freaking awesome.
For a bunch of scientists, you’d think they would know that October 2007 is not the future.
This is especially funny coming from Daniel Faraday, because, if there was ever a scientist that wouldn’t be sure when the future was…
I know when the future is. It’s in the past…
Someone needs to remind NASA that Armageddon features scenes where both a space station and shuttle are blown the eff up.
In space no one can hear you say “whoa.”
“People are definitely about to get very excited about NASA.”
People are about to get very confused about upcoming releases.
This poster would be so much better if they had just tipped their shades. NASA: good at space, not so good at pop culture.
The crew of Photoshop 12 looks ready to rock.
NASA spent 17 billion dollars on these posters.
no, WE (THE TAXPAYERS) spent 17 billion dollars on these posters.
Right, and they’re basically a PR campaign for giving yet more billions of dollars to private military and aerospace companies.
because if there is one industry that’s underfunded in the u.s. it’s the military/aerospace industry.
Phew, so glad they didn’t sexualize the female astronaut in a really obvious and pandering way. If they had done that, that would have just been the worst.
I thought Katydid would be the first to comment, declaring her love for all things NASA. Where are you?!? Space camp?
Actually, I think she got pulled into an emergency meeting to find out who leaked this horribleness to the world.
astronauts are nothing if not dorks
I was SO waiting for someone to do this.
Thanks for taking the initiative!
I was going to point out that the Matrix poster is from 2007 and isn’t that current…then I realized 2007 is still 8 years too late and if you showed up to a costume party dressed as a Matrix character in 2007 you would be the creepiest person in the room.
Confession, I have this poster hanging up….in my childhood bedroom!!!!
I actually have lots of NASA stuff. I know shocking huh? Pins, photos, a shirt.
NASA is very very cool. Astronauts are very cool (except for the obvious exceptions). You know that scene in Apollo 13 where they are like: “okay we need to save this mission by making a tool out of these hodge podge parts” they still do that crazy stuff!!
Also, NASA is the world leader of space exploration. Only three countries have the capability to send humans into space: Russia (who serve crazy amounts of vodka at space events) China (who are super secretive about it) and the USA. And now with the retirement of the space shuttle we will be losing that ability. The shuttle is not safe so it’s good we’re retiring it but still sad.
I want to convert you all into space/NASA lovers. Let’s go get coffee.
This is all really adorable. I loved reading all of that! I would not hate it if you managed to slip in NASA fun facts wherever applicable!
I think many of us are secret NASA lovers, due mostly to the grand prize of every 80s Nickelodeon game show being a trip to space camp.
Make the other countries stop sending animals into space and we’ll talk.
Katydid, I wish you were my science teacher.
Seriously. How many teachers did I have that had no enthusiasm for science? Almost all of them. Maybe if Katydid had been my teacher I would be eating freeze-dried ice cream somewhere over Australia right now. I mean over Easter Island. I mean over Argentina. I mean over the Atlantic. (see, because you orbit so fast!) (probably.)
Let’s go get coffee… IN SPACE.
I seriously am psyched for us to go back to the moon, and try our hand at Mars. Please, NASA, get on it! Also, and this is either selfishly nationalistic or super patriotic, depending on your point of view, but I will be majorly annoyed if China goes to the moon, because that sucker is OURS.
Wait, do you actually work at NASA headquarters or something? Because my dad’s company built that building and if you want, I could probably find out where all the secret tunnels and hidden floors are.
I don’t work at NASA though I know Headquarters well. It’s a great building. Tell your dad thanks for the roof top patios. Perfect spot for lunch. I interned at HQ a couple years ago in their foreign relations department. Everything NASA does is an international operation these days (think International Space Station).
NASA has the incredible power to inspire which is so important when America’s children are falling behind in the math and sciences.
Our plans to return to the moon are on hold right now. The President’s proposed budget cuts the Constellation program which was the return to the moon program. We’ll see what happens. NASA is great but I’m not blind to its issues either.
Lastly, I really want to gush about the actually launching of humans into orbit (and how crazy dangerous and amazing it is) but I’ll leave that for our coffee conversation.
One of my friends almost worked for NASA! Now she works for Boeing, though, and is getting to build what we like to call the DEATHPLANE.
OK, as a space nerd (I heart Carl Sagan, think we need to become a two-planet species, etc.), I have to say…WHAT. THE. FUCK. NASA, YOU ARE EMBARRASSING US ALL. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE AND GET SOMETHING INTO SPACE THAT DOESN’T BREAK OR BLOW THE FUCK UP. JESUS.
DharmaBum OUT.
I feel like Teen Korner just up and turned itself into a poster.
I like the one they did for “Old Dogs”.
yep. They called it “Space Cowboys.”
This is like when G.E or gas companies do commercials. We know who you are giant inescapable companies, we can’t change our consumption habits based on your investment towards alternative energy. We kind of have to buy from you. And Nasa, you are our space program. We can’t pick a new one.
In space, there are no spoons.
I like to think that Dan Tani already owned that outfit to begin with.
Pretty great it’s called Space Flight Awareness. Don’t let space flight happen to you.
Spacey the Bear says: ONLY YOU can prevent Unintentional Space Flight.
I think astronauts get to design their own mission badges, which is really cool, but this looks more like the PR department got them to pose and try not to look too embarrassed about it. Except that one guy.in the STS-134 poster.
They should just merge NASA with Hollywood and make REAL kickass movies. Imagine the sets NASA could build. In space.
I don’t think rehasing 5-10 year old movie posters is going to suddenly make people go, “Ooo, NASA is so hip and cool!”
Anyway. I once dated a guy who worked at NASA. Let’s just say it didn’t last long, given he was a dry as the dry wall in my office building. His arguments for space exploration would have worked during the Cold War, but not now.
I think the intention is not for us to think they are hip and cool, but to put astronauts/space teams back in the context of epic figures and cultural heroes who appear, to us, wrapped up in some unfathomable drama of space and technology and science. I feel like Americans used to think of astronauts this way, back when space exploration was maybe newer and more novel and felt like a dream, but now technology pervades life in this ubiquitous, inescapable way so nothing really feels very new or exciting anymore. What Americans respond to emotionally are movie protagonists who have to deal with forces bigger than themselves and somehow win it for the greater good. Perhaps NASA wants Americans to feel more emotionally invested in NASA programs/endeavors via a renewed idealization of them, in an almost cinematic way. Popular interest/investment in NASA programs = more funding…see Katydid’s comments on decreased federal support of those initiatives.
“Relax, Carrie.” -everyone
Wasn’t the future in The Matrix a bad thing? ’cause of the robots enslaving humanity for energy? NASA, when do I get my human energy harvesters?