Poster Boys (and Girls)
Astronauts show a lighter side in their unofficial crew posters.
- By Rebecca Maksel
- AirSpaceMag.com, July 08, 2011
Courtesy Sean Collins, Robert Markowitz (photographer), and NASA.
Expedition 29 is scheduled to head to the International Space Station in September 2011, launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Collins used an international version of the movie poster of the film Tron: Legacy for this parody. From left to right: Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Mike Fossum, Dan Burbank, and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov.
What's next for Collins? He's already thinking about a parody for Expedition 30, scheduled to head for the ISS in December. He's going to use the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and title the parody "Pilots Over the Caribbean." "Oh, yeah," he says, "I'm going to get in there and 'pirate-ize' them. Get ready for eyeliner and pits."
Want more? Here are all the crew posters produced by the artists and photographers of NASA’s Space Flight Awareness division.
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Comments (4)
Is Frank De Winne looking a little pensive? Perhaps he has just remembered what traditionally happens to red-shirt crew members.
Posted by Bruce Thompson on July 20,2011 | 03:48 PM
Awesome! So glad to see a human side of these heroes and a sense of humor to boot!!
Posted by Brad on July 21,2011 | 08:16 PM
Regarding the Atlantis 125 poster, Scott Altman was the Navy Tomcat pilot that provided the in-flight middle finger in Top Gun.
Posted by dbarak on September 9,2011 | 10:50 PM
Exists also for the following crews
STS-46 Spaghettis all over astronauts
STS-54 Enterprise Bridge photo
STS-55 German traditional costumes photo
...and many more...
Posted by Yves on May 3,2013 | 03:27 AM