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, Amy Gish, and NASA.
The other members of Collins’ graphics team get to design posters as well. Amy Gish, a former contractor at Johnson who is finishing her graduate degree in speech-language pathology, designed this 2009 parody for the crew of STS-119. The 2008 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was her inspiration. “The original design of the Indiana Jones poster showed the characters in different sizes,” says Gish, “but it was important to the crew that nobody be singled out. They all wanted to be part of the team, so they all wanted to be the same size. So it kind of got away from the original poster design.”
Clockwise from lower left: Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Lee Archambault, Tony Antonelli, Joe Acaba, and Ricky Arnold.
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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