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2024 Wall Calendar: Space Travel

Attention Space Travelers: This classic 10"x13" wall calendar features 12 out-of-this-world designs from our Space Travel series. When open, the calendar is 10" wide by 26" tall and features a generous amount of space to write notes about things to do, galaxies to explore, and places to go. Each beautiful 9"x12" poster is printed on gallery-grade paper and spiral-bound, making this 2024 calendar the perfect gift for any outer space lover. To infinity and beyond! 

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Blast off to outer space with these original posters by the Anderson Design Group!  In the first half of the 20th Century, Space Travel seemed to be within our grasp as America soared to new heights in sleek aircraft and traveled the highways in cars with rocket fins. Science and imagination collided with dreams of new family vacations. Space Travel celebrates the optimism, adventure, and style of the years leading up to the actual Space Age.

Vibrant colors and well-crafted lettering add to the retro travel vibe of these posters. Printed with soy-based inks on FSC certified paper, this 12" x 12" wall calendar features large monthly grids that offer ample room for jotting notes, along with four bonus months of September through December of 2023. Also includes moon phases (CST), standard U.S. and international holidays.

• 16-month calendar featuring six bonus months of September through December of 2023 • Large boxes to record dates and special events •  Includes moon phases, astronomical & historical events, U.S. and international holidays • Dimensions 12" x 12" • Weight : 0.6 lb

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Download one or all 15 posters of destinations in, and even outside of, the solar system. Posters are made like old posters the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created for the national parks.

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A creative team of visual strategists at JPL, known as "The Studio," created the poster series, which is titled "Visions of the Future." Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in designing the 14 posters, which are the result of many brainstorming sessions with JPL scientists, engineers, and expert communicators. Each poster went through a number of concepts and revisions, and each was made better with feedback from the JPL experts.

David Delgado, creative strategy: The posters began as a series about exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars – to celebrate NASA's study of them. (The NASA program that focuses on finding and studying exoplanets is managed by JPL.) Later, the director of JPL was on vacation at the Grand Canyon with his wife, and they saw a similarly styled poster that reminded them of the exoplanet posters. They suggested it might be wonderful to give a similar treatment to the amazing destinations in our solar system that JPL is currently exploring as part of NASA. And they were right!

The point was to share a sense of things on the edge of possibility that are closely tied to the work our people are doing today. The JPL director has called our people "architects of the future."

As for the style, we gravitated to the style of the old posters the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created for the national parks. There's a nostalgia for that era that just feels good.

Joby Harris, illustrator: The old WPA posters did a really great job delivering a feeling about a far-off destination. They were created at a time when color photography was not very advanced, in order to capture the beauty of the national parks from a human perspective. These posters show places in our solar system (and beyond) that likewise haven't been photographed on a human scale yet – or in the case of the exoplanets might never be, at least not for a long time. It seemed a perfect way to help people imagine these strange, new worlds.

Delgado: The WPA poster style is beloved, and other artists have embraced it before us. Our unique take was to take one specific thing about the place and focus on the science of it. We chose exoplanets that had really interesting, strange qualities, and everything about the poster was designed to amplify the concept. The same model guided us for the posters that focus on destinations in the solar system.

Lois Kim, typography: We worked hard to get the typography right since that was a very distinctive element in creating the character of those old posters. We wanted to create a retro-future feel, so we didn't adhere exactly to the period styles, but they definitely informed the design. The Venus poster has a very curvy, flowy font, for example, to evoke a sense of the clouds.

Credits for the posters Creative Strategy: Dan Goods, David Delgado

Illustrators: Liz Barrios De La Torre (Ceres, Europa) Stefan Bucher (Jupiter Design) Invisible Creature (Grand Tour, Mars, Enceladus) Joby Harris (Kepler 16b, Earth, Kepler 186f, PSO J318.5-22, Titan) Jessie Kawata (Venus) Lois Kim (Typography for Venus and Europa) Ron Miller (Jupiter Illustration)

Visions of the Future

JPL's Exoplanet Travel Bureau presents: Visions of the Future

Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality. As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future.

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Can I get copies of these posters from NASA or JPL? The images are free for you to print. Please consult the JPL Image Use Policy for further details.

Is it okay for me to print them out myself and display them? Download the full size posters above so that you can print them and hang on your walls and share with us on Facebook or Twitter .

Do you have other sizes that you haven’t posted, or can you make new ones in a different size? The current sizes on the website are what are currently available, which are 20 x 30 inches.

Background: A creative team of visual strategists at JPL, known as " The Studio ," created the poster series, which is titled "Visions of the Future." Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in designing the 14 posters, which are the result of many brainstorming sessions with JPL scientists, engineers, and expert communicators. Each poster went through a number of concepts and revisions, and each was made better with feedback from the JPL experts.

David Delgado, creative strategy: The posters began as a series about exoplanets -- planets orbiting other stars -- to celebrate NASA's study of them. (The NASA program that focuses on finding and studying exoplanets is managed by JPL.) Later, the director of JPL was on vacation at the Grand Canyon with his wife, and they saw a similarly styled poster that reminded them of the exoplanet posters. They suggested it might be wonderful to give a similar treatment to the amazing destinations in our solar system that JPL is currently exploring as part of NASA. And they were right!

The point was to share a sense of things on the edge of possibility that are closely tied to the work our people are doing today. The JPL director has called our people "architects of the future."

As for the style, we gravitated to the style of the old posters the WPA created for the national parks. There's a nostalgia for that era that just feels good.

Joby Harris, illustrator: The old WPA posters did a really great job delivering a feeling about a far-off destination. They were created at a time when color photography was not very advanced, in order to capture the beauty of the national parks from a human perspective. These posters show places in our solar system (and beyond) that likewise haven't been photographed on a human scale yet -- or in the case of the exoplanets might never be, at least not for a long time. It seemed a perfect way to help people imagine these strange, new worlds.

Delgado: The WPA poster style is beloved, and other artists have embraced it before us. Our unique take was to take one specific thing about the place and focus on the science of it. We chose exoplanets that had really interesting, strange qualities, and everything about the poster was designed to amplify the concept. The same model guided us for the posters that focus on destinations in the solar system.

Lois Kim, typography: We worked hard to get the typography right, since that was a very distinctive element in creating the character of those old posters. We wanted to create a retro-future feel, so we didn't adhere exactly to the period styles, but they definitely informed the design. The Venus poster has a very curvy, flowy font, for example, to evoke a sense of the clouds.

Creative Strategy: Dan Goods, David Delgado

Illustrators:

• Liz Barrios De La Torre ( Ceres , Europa )
• Stefan Bucher ( Jupiter Design)
• Invisible Creature ( Grand Tour , Mars , Enceladus )
• Joby Harris ( Kepler 16b , Earth , Kepler 186f , PSO J318.5-22 , Titan )
• Jessie Kawata ( Venus )
• Lois Kim (Typography for Venus and Europa )
• Ron Miller ( Jupiter Illustration)

The Grand Tour Delgado: The Grand Tour is the route the Voyager 2 spacecraft took to visit all four outer planets. We imagined this would be something people might want to repeat, since it's a flight plan that's possible every 175 years or so, when the outer planets are arranged just right. In the future, it might be considered "quaint" to experience a gravity assist.

Harris: Style-wise, the design came from some references we looked at from transparency overlays from the 1960s. It initially had a black background, but we inverted it and the design just clicked.

Mars Delgado: This was the very last poster we produced for the series. We wanted to imagine a future time where humans are on Mars, and their history would revere the robotic pioneers that came first.

There are a few fun things to point out here. You can see the silhouette of Olympus Mons in the background, there's a hint of underground water, and the rover's wheel is spelling out JPL on the ground in Morse code, just like the Curiosity rover does (for what the rover drivers call "visual odometry.")

Venus Harris: We tried a few different designs for Venus, starting with the surface, but the intent was to show things people might find pleasant, and Venus' surface is anything but.

Kim: The scene is of a city in the clouds during a transit of Mercury across the sun. The Morse code for the number 9 is written on the side (signifying the inhabitants are "on cloud 9").

Ceres Delgado: The big sign in this poster is inspired by the gateway in Reno that announces it as "the biggest little city in the world." We kind of thought that might suit Ceres. It's the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and probably has a lot of water ice underground.

Harris: We designed all of these posters as a group, and liked the way this looked with a very muted color palette.

Jupiter Delgado: The basis for this poster was a Jupiter cloudscape by artist Ron Miller, who was very gracious in allowing us to modify his painting. In talking with a lead scientist on NASA's Juno mission (which is getting to Jupiter in July), we locked onto his description of the brilliant auroras Jupiter has. It would truly be a sight to see.

Enceladus Delgado: Saturn's moon Enceladus is all about the plumes erupting from its south pole. At our first brainstorming session, someone called the plumes "Cold Faithful," and that helped crystallize this idea quite quickly.

There's no right way up in space, so for fun, we turned the surface upside down from the point of view of the visitors in the picture.

Kepler-186f Harris: The concept here was about how plants might be very different colors on planets around other stars, since the star's spectrum of light would be different. So we played on an old saying, with "the grass is always redder on the other side of the fence."

There's whimsy in the design, making people wonder why there would be this white picket fence on an alien planet.

HD 40307g | Super Earth Delgado: As we discussed ideas for a poster about super Earths -- bigger planets, more massive, with more gravity -- we asked, "Why would that be a cool place to visit?"

We saw an ad for people jumping off mountains in the Alps wearing squirrel suits, and it hit us that this could be a planet for thrill-seekers.

Kepler-16b Harris: This was the first poster we designed in the series. The concept was really clear from the very beginning and set the tone for everything that came after. When we showed it to the scientists, the only thing they wanted us to tweak was to make the color of one of the stars (and the shadow it casts) different from the other star.

PSO J318.5-22

Harris: This design fell right out of the tagline, "where the nightlife never ends," which was perfect for a wandering planet that has no star.

We wanted to evoke a sense of elegance, so we leaned heavily on 1930s art deco for this one. It's sort of retro-future fantasy, but again, there's a bit of real science inspiring it.

NASA Went Retro With Their New Space Travel Posters

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What does the future look like? If these newly-released NASA posters have anything to do with it, the future will look backward even as technology hurtles forward. The agency has given the public a sneak peek into the world of tomorrow with the release of three new posters promoting the travel craze of the future—trips to Enceladus, Mars and even a “grand tour” to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune using gravity assists.

The posters were designed by Invisible Creature , the stage name of the illustration and design duo Don and Ryan Clark. The pair is responsible for everything from Grammy posters to magazine illustrations, and jumped at the chance to create a series of space posters for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In a blog , they write that they were commissioned to imagine the retro future of space travel by a visual strategist at JPL.

As Sean O’Kane reports for The Verge , NASA has long embraced gorgeous design. JPL actually has its own design studio that does graphic design for the agency and even helps scientists imagine future missions.

NASA is no stranger to travel posters—last year, they released a series of WPA-style posters highlighting potentially habitable planets. All of the agency’s posters can be viewed on JPL’s website .

Along with a previously commissioned poster , the three new additions will be part of the agency’s Visions of the Future calendar, which will only be available to NASA and JPL staff and associates. If you want them for yourself, you’ll have to settle with printing your own or purchasing them from Invisible Creature’s online store . Space tourism may be further away than you’d like, but there’s nothing keeping you from imagining the excitement and glamor of a beautifully retro future.

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Erin Blakemore is a Boulder, Colorado-based journalist. Her work has appeared in publications like The Washington Post , TIME , mental_floss , Popular Science and JSTOR Daily . Learn more at erinblakemore.com .

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For one designer, creating these posters was like ‘coming full circle’ for his family. 

NASA has been quite the pop culture darling over this past year. The agency was featured prominently in “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, and there were those pictures of Pluto before that. Then, in this past week, the internet was buzzing about  some really cool looking space posters , put out by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

For Don Clark of Seattle­ based graphic design firm Invisible Creature , securing a job designing three of these posters was an experience he describes as “coming full circle”.

An old friend from his days as a musician contacted him with some work. The friend had landed a job at California­ based JPL, where he was helping run a fun, art­ inspired program to assemble a calendar with space­travel themed graphic art for each month, and he wanted Clark to participate.

Clark agreed, and JPL assigned him posters of Mars, The Grand Tour (the Voyager Mission), and Encelatus (the Casini Mission for Saturn).

He describes the posters as “fun, whimsical takes on space travel.” He explains that NASA gave them themes, planets, and concepts, and they worked from there. 

“We wanted that nostalgic travel poster charm, but almost in a way where we’re looking 500 years into the future,” he says.

NASA gave them a lot of creative control, but there was one hard-and-fast rule—they wanted the posters to be rooted in the science of what could potentially be done in the future. 

The posters are available for free on NASA’s website, but the limited edition prints by Clark’s company are almost sold out. When asked if he expected the posters to take off the way they did, he said with a laugh, “Absolutely not…we had no idea. We were not prepared for this at all.” 

But getting the job was more meaningful for Clark, not necessarily because of the attention, but instead because his grandfather had worked at NASA as an illustrator for 30 years. He had worked on the very first illustration to go into space, called the Pioneer Plaque . 

“It was really cool to get this project, and have this thing come full circle for our family.” 

Listen to the full interview above. 

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Retro NASA Travel Posters Invite You to Real Alien Worlds

SEATTLE — Travel to distant alien worlds with two suns, red grass and strong gravity in three retro exoplanet posters produced by artists working with NASA.

The three posters — created by Joby Harris and David Delgado, visual strategists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California — feature artistic renderings of what it might be like to stand (or fly) on one of a trio of imagination-capturing alien worlds.

One of the posters depicts Kepler 186f , a planet sometimes called "Earth's cousin." The exoplanet is slightly larger than Earth, and circles a star smaller and dimmer than the sun. The planet is the first small planet discovered in what might be its star's habitable zone — the area around a star that would allow a planet to support liquid water on its surface. The artist's depiction of the planet shows a world covered in red grass. [ Exoplanet Art from the Mind of Lynette Cook ]

"If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red-wavelength photons, making for a color palette very different than the greens on Earth," the poster's planet description reads.

Another retro poster shows a skydiver flying high above the super-Earth HD 40307g , an exoplanet that eight time more massive than Earth. NASA officials don't know if the planet is rocky or has a surface "buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice," according to the poster. The planet's massive size means that its gravitational pull is very strong, making skydiving a potentially thrilling (and even scary) feat.

An astronaut marvels at the twin suns of the planet Kepler 16b . The world orbits two stars like Tatooine in the movie "Star Wars," but Kepler 16b might not be as life-friendly as the home of Luke Skywalker.

"Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good as it has a temperature similar to dry ice," the NASA poster says. "But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction."

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NASA officials printed out copies of three of the retro posters to pass out here at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, but they are not available for purchase. You can download the images to create your own posters directly through NASA's PlanetQuest website here .

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Miriam Kramer joined Space.com as a Staff Writer in December 2012. Since then, she has floated in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, felt the pull of 4-Gs in a trainer aircraft and watched rockets soar into space from Florida and Virginia. She also served as Space.com's lead space entertainment reporter, and enjoys all aspects of space news, astronomy and commercial spaceflight.  Miriam has also presented space stories during live interviews with Fox News and other TV and radio outlets. She originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee where she and her family would take trips to dark spots on the outskirts of town to watch meteor showers every year. She loves to travel and one day hopes to see the northern lights in person. Miriam is currently a space reporter with Axios, writing the Axios Space newsletter. You can follow Miriam on Twitter.

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