Free, downloadable NASA Endeavour STS-134 Mission poster

Spotted this tacked to various cubicles at Johnson Space Center. You can download it yourself for free here, along with the official posters for previous shuttle missions!

*More snapshots from my excellent JSC adventure here.

• [Andrew Ferguson]

  I could be wrong, but I think the STS-134 poster is a direct reference to this one for JJ Abrams Star Trek film:

  http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sts134_crewposter02.jpg

  • [Anonymous]

    No, you’re spot on. Crap! I knew it rang a Star Trek bell in my head and I was all set to go with the Picard reference, but I do not care for the Abrams effort.

  • [bpratt]

    I thought exactly the same thing when I saw it, I’m sure you must be right. This is badass! Can’t understand the nitpicking.

  • [Halloween Jack]

    Unfortunately, comparing the two just kind of strengthens Rob Knop’s point.

• [KurtMac]

  I generally get a kick out of these light-hearted promos for each mission that NASA has started to do, but my OCD wants to strangle whoever disproportionately scaled the International Space Station on this one.

• [imhotep]

  Ewww… I don’t wanna go to the creepy space-sausage party!

• [Trent Hawkins]

  Why is there a super villain in the middle?

• [dwdyer]

  Who’s the really small sparkly guy on the far left?

  • [Donald Petersen]

    It would seem somebody has disintegrated Scotty.

• [Chris Tucker]

  Tell you what, when all you complainers apply for, get accepted and graduate from the astronaut training program, and get assigned a seat on the next thing smoking to orbit, you can then have someone do the mission poster of your dreams.

• [Rob Knop]

  Subtitle: “White Guys In Space”

• [jamiethehutt]

  I’m no rocket scientist but maybe things like this are why SpaceX seems so cheap… :-P

• [Azu]

  I see Michael Stipe’s career is taking a bold new direction.

  • [Keir]

    That’s not Michael Stipe, that’s Moby!

• [gellfex]

  There’s a P-shop shadow problem with the 2 left guys that’s jarring. One or the other should have been flipped to come up with a consistent scheme. Either all lit from the right of frame, or all lit from the side they’re near.

• [Dicrel Seijin]

  Despite the odd bowing of the head and the Photoshop lighting error, and whatever that light burst is, I still want one of these.

• [Jack]

  Eccch, I cannot stand these posters. They seem so forced and so geared to appeal to “SyFy” network viewers. Our astronauts deserve better. Anyone ever consider getting a real photographer or artist to do this kind of stuff?

• [seanpatgallagher]

  How about, “To Baldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before”.

  Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

  -S

  • [holtt]

    +1

• [Anonymous]

  Vladimir Putin is an astronaut too?

  Damn. That guy is such a badass.

• [Sork]

  Randy Quaid? Isn’t he just a crop-dusting pilot?

• [Editz]

  Commander Kelly looks a little like a hairless Louis C.K.

• [Anonymous]

  Cool poster, but I’d like it more if they didn’t make Mark look down like that. But I’m nitpicking.

  Until now, I didn’t even know they made official mission posters. That in itself is kinda cool.

• [CANTFIGHTTHEDITE]

  That poster is clearly missing a catchy one-liner at the bottom. Any thoughts?

  My suggestion: “Second to none.”

  (for STS-135: “Last, but not least.”

• [Anonymous]

  Wait! They can’t let John Locke on the shuttle! He’ll destroy the island!!!

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  I can haz names?

  • [Anonymous]

    Okay, left to right: Guy Pearce, Vladimir Putin, Terry O’Quinn, Eminem, Oleg Rudnik, and… Sanjay Gupta?

    • [Anonymous]

      That’s not Eminem, that’s Steve Martin…

• [tigersnarl]

  I would love to have seen NASA ask Illustrators and Printmakers to contribute to these schemes instead of a ‘chop to each. Could you imagine a Robert McGinnis or Drew Struzan whipping up one? Or an Aesthetic Apparatus version – Don’t get me wrong, these posters are collector’s editions, but come on, that would have been fantastic at all levels…

• [Anonymous]

  That’s fucking cool.

• [wookiedingleberry]

  Oh, I’ve seen this one…the Shuttle Commander is the villain.

  /spoiler alert

• [Mr Chan]

  I like to think that Picard came back to the 21st Century to stop us from doing more of these.

• [HatOfEdshu]

  John Locke, Astronaut. It’s Lost in Space! Ha!

• [David Carroll]

  Is it too late to get Milla Jovovich attached to this project?

  MultiPass!

  • [Jake0748]

    Damn you David! For some reason I’ve had Milla Jovovich and multipass stuck in my head all day. I was just starting to calm down, and you had to post THAT?

• [penguinchris]

  This had to have been done by a guy at NASA who does this type of photography as a hobby and reads strobist.com. I don’t mean to put whoever it was down because it’s still cool, but it’s not professional level work like the Star Trek poster.