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Topic: NASA's Ares I-X (awesome) movie poster
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-07-2008 12:55 PM
   
As spotted hanging in a hallway inside a NASA office building...  Though this isn't NASA's first movie-style poster, I dare say it's the best one yet! |
Scorpius
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posted 03-07-2008 09:45 PM
That is a darned nice poster! |
Steke
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posted 03-07-2008 10:46 PM
Cool yes, but how do astronauts access the spacecraft with that gantry structure?Where is the catwalk and white room? |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-07-2008 10:56 PM
Ares I-X is an unmanned test flight to test the first stage while carrying a mass simulator for the second stage and boilerplate capsule. Eventually, Complex 39B will be modified and the launch support tower and access arms will be mounted on the mobile launch platform (the tower at the pad now will be torn down). However, as 39B was needed to support the launch of STS-125, the Hubble servicing mission, and its launch on need contingency, modifications to the pad had to wait until after Atlantis launches later this year. As such, Ares I-X was designed to launch from a mostly-intact 39B, with only the addition of a taller lightning mast to account for the height of the vehicle. |
Steke
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posted 03-08-2008 09:27 AM
Ahhhhhhh!This explains why the Shuttle access structure is still present and visible on the left. I get it now. Your one well informed guy! :-) |
Gordon Reade
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posted 03-08-2008 03:25 PM
Where can I buy one of those? I want one for my office. |
LCDR Scott Schneeweis
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posted 03-08-2008 03:39 PM
Here's the NASA Graphics Artist who created the poster. Perhaps we can either secure a few or a PDF file of the poster which can then be used to replicate them... There are other poster PDF files from Constellation. ------------------
Scott Schneeweis
http://www.SPACEAHOLIC.com/ |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-02-2008 05:52 PM
NASA has now added an updated version of the poster to their website. |
alanh_7
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posted 07-02-2008 08:25 PM
Did NASA ever produce the 'The First Flight of a New Era' poster for consumer purchase? |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-02-2008 08:26 PM
To my knowledge, the poster was only produced for internal distribution. |
alanh_7
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posted 07-03-2008 08:47 AM
I looked for it at the KSC souvenir shop when i was there in May but could not find it. Too bad, nice poster.
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cspg
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posted 07-03-2008 10:17 AM
Another missed opportunity to stir interest in the future?Chris. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-03-2008 10:27 AM
NASA isn't in the business of selling souvenirs and its budget no longer allows for the widespread distribution of free materials as it once did. NASA added a high resolution version of the poster that can be printed as an 8x12 one-sheet. Were the KSC gift shop or another store interested in producing a larger poster, I am positive NASA would be happy to provide the full resolution file. |
cspg
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posted 07-03-2008 10:30 AM
But they do have the budget for "internal distribution"...What purpose(s), if any, does that serve?Chris. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-03-2008 10:39 AM
To quote from NASA's website: The Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Program (previously known as the Manned Flight Awareness Program) became a formal program following the Mercury and Gemini Programs, when NASA took steps to infuse the space program with a renewed and strengthened consciousness of quality and flight safety. As NASA human space flight programs grew, NASA centers were requested to expand their assistance to government agencies and contractors in enhancing employee motivation. SFA soon became the watchword of the human space program.As it grew in stature, the SFA Program played an integral and increasingly forceful role in the Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz projects. By the time the Space Shuttle was flying, the program had begun to promote its goals through various motivational vehicles: Awards, films, publications, posters, and an array of pins, buttons, banners, and decals. Today as we continue with the Space Shuttle Program and begin the tremendous task, along with our international partners, of assembling the International Space Station, those motivational elements, especially the SFA awards, distinguish a vigorous, effective program for involving employees in the production of quality space hardware, software, and services. In other words, the SFA products are intended to inspire and motivate the NASA workforce to "do good work," to borrow Gus Grissom's advice. |
cspg
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posted 07-04-2008 06:21 AM
"Awards, films, publications, posters, and an array of pins, buttons, banners, and decals."All this to encourage "good work"? Ain't no fun to work for the Government, huh?  Chris. |
capoetc
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posted 07-04-2008 07:07 AM
I think it's a great program, and thanks to Robert for continuing to post these kinds of items.It's probably hard for people to understand, but most people working at NASA are not astronauts or in the MCC. In many cases, it would be easy for the workers to lose sight of the big picture -- the end result of all the hard work. The SFA program is a great way to keep the focus on the mission. BTW, on an only-marginally-related sidenote -- having visited the NASA exhibition at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in DC, I am even more looking forward to the next phase of NASA's evolution with the Constellation program. I hope others came away from the festival similarly energized. ------------------
John Capobianco
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alanh_7
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posted 07-04-2008 08:04 AM
I also look foreword to the Constellation program. It is to bad that someone would not print a large version of that poster, whether it is NASA or someone else. |
KSCartist
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posted 07-04-2008 08:19 AM
Download the hi-res version from the NASA website - go to Staples (or any other business products company) and have them make you an 18 x 24 poster on photographic paper. It'll cost you about $25.00. ...and before you ask I'm not volunterring to manage this little project.  Tim |
Mr Meek
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posted 07-04-2008 08:24 AM
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Originally posted by cspg:
All this to encourage "good work"? Ain't no fun to work for the Government, huh?
It could also be called the "Widows and Orphans" program, as in "Do good work, or you'll make new widows and orphans." Were I going to strap myself in a rocket, I wouldn't care if NASA got each engineer a personal masseuse to rub them down while a dancing bear juggled chainsaws and sang a song about doing "good work." |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-04-2008 08:25 AM
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Originally posted by KSCartist:
...and have them make you an 18 x 24 poster on photographic paper.
As noted in my earlier reply, at the resolution that the file is offered on NASA's website, its maximum optimal printing size should be 8 by 12 inches at 300 dpi (while true, you could print at 150 dpi, doubling your print size, readers should be aware that the final product won't be as sharp as what you see on your computer screen). |
medaris
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posted 07-07-2008 01:14 PM
The programme seems sensible to me. When you see estates of deceased NASA workers come up on shop sites, it's obvious that they have carefully kept many of the items they've been given, or been awarded - so they must mean something to the people who receive them. There's not much external recognition for the NASA footsoldiers - I quite like the idea that they receive some internal recognition. |
Atlantis
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Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 07-07-2008 03:25 PM
With some luck, I may print one of these out on the HP designjet i have in my office at Work.Edit: Victory is Mine! |
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posted 11-10-2008 08:42 PM
NOTE: There are at least 3 different versions of this poster. The first is the one that you see at the start of the thread. If you go to the link for the artist, you will notice that the service structure to the right is missing. Both of these versions have an April 2009 launch date. The new (3rd) version simply says "Launching 2009". |
jbehun1981
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posted 03-10-2009 03:42 PM
Thanks for the compliments. I designed the poster. There is actually about 30 different versions. They keep changing stuff on me, but there are really two different final versions one for Internal NASA and one for the public. The public version kinda got dull because of the NASA style guide restrictions. I am about to do one last version with all the final pad modifications and new names. |
Mr Meek
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From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 03-10-2009 04:49 PM
Are you (or someone in your department) responsible for the crew "movie" posters as well? I've really enjoyed those. |
E2M Lem Man
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From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-11-2009 02:44 PM
Hey, we love the poster a lot and a lot of us are waiting for the new dawn to happen. Please post the new image when it becomes available. Thanks from us all!J.M. Busby |
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