Ever wish you could travel through space? NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is here to make your dreams come true with three outer space tours, accompanied by some gorgeous, vintage style posters. NASA JPL commissioned the posters from Don and Ryan Clark’s design firm Invisible Creatures. The resulting prints utilize bold, colorful yet simple graphics and fonts to depict the wonder of traveling to and exploring Mars, Saturn, and other planets and moons.
The above poster advertises an “The Grand Tour,” promising a hop around Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. As the poster says, this is literally a “once in a lifetime getaway,” with tours available only once every 175 years. According to the Verge, the poster is an homage to the Voyager missions, which studied these planets back in the early 1970s.
Then there’s a tour of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, boasting “more than 100 breathtaking geysers,” including “Cold Faithful.” Judging by the poster, if you book a tour, you can watch these geysers from a luxurious glass ball, and bring your golden retriever along too!
Last but not least, this Mars is sure to be super popular, promising tours of the planet’s robotic pioneers, arts and culture, and agriculture and architecture. As The Verge reports, the poster contains symbols of all these things in order to paint “a scene that imagines an established human presence on the Red Planet.”
Until Virgin Galatic is live, however, real space tourism is still just a dream. Taking in these breathtaking posters will have to do for now.
And if you want more options/more beautiful art, check out NASA’s poster campaign on exoplanets.
The JPL’s “Visions of the Future” series actually include 14 posters, which you can download here. Here’s more information on the gorgeous Jupiter poster, designed by Stefan Bucher of 344.
(Via Invisible Creatures and The Verge)
