NASA vintage photos
June 13, 2010 2:22 PM Subscribe
Love the photos, but I find the total absence of information annoying.
posted by Dumsnill at 2:33 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by Dumsnill at 2:33 PM on June 13, 2010
this is super cool!
I have a big folder on my desktop called "inspiration" which is about to get a bit bigger.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:39 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
I have a big folder on my desktop called "inspiration" which is about to get a bit bigger.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:39 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
Love the photos, but I find the total absence of information annoying.
Oddly enough I do a lot of the photos of the astronauts and have been adding them in the comments.
Great stuff!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:43 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oddly enough I do a lot of the photos of the astronauts and have been adding them in the comments.
Great stuff!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:43 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
er do KNOW a lot...
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:02 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:02 PM on June 13, 2010
I thought that this going to be a link to a hilarious web cartoon about what NASA might have looked like in the year 1172. I was expecting drawings of Sir Bedevere trying to work out the air speed of an African swallow.
posted by marmaduke_yaverland at 3:23 PM on June 13, 2010 [4 favorites]
posted by marmaduke_yaverland at 3:23 PM on June 13, 2010 [4 favorites]
Brandon -- I'm also going through my copies of books like SP-246 and the nix.ksc.nasa.gov site to provide annotations for a few. Most of the historic ones appear to be prints of fairly common images that are available in higher res versions direct from NASA.
posted by autopilot at 3:27 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by autopilot at 3:27 PM on June 13, 2010
Dang! I was gonna post this! Great stuff.
posted by brundlefly at 4:08 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by brundlefly at 4:08 PM on June 13, 2010
Thank you -- this is delightful. What a gorgeous and cool universe we have here.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 5:02 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 5:02 PM on June 13, 2010
One of my very-best long-time friends ...on the Space Shuttle.
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:28 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:28 PM on June 13, 2010
I'm also going through my copies of books like SP-246 and the nix.ksc.nasa.gov site
Anything with a lunar rover in it is from Apollo 15, 16 or 17. Google any one of those and view the images tab in Google and you can probably find it.
Gemini stuff is pretty easy in the same manner, along with "crew portraits or photos" for Apollo or Gemini.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:43 PM on June 13, 2010
Anything with a lunar rover in it is from Apollo 15, 16 or 17. Google any one of those and view the images tab in Google and you can probably find it.
Gemini stuff is pretty easy in the same manner, along with "crew portraits or photos" for Apollo or Gemini.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:43 PM on June 13, 2010
NASA was around in 1172??
Okay, I'm not the only one who read it this way. Awesome stuff nonetheless!
posted by futureisunwritten at 6:48 PM on June 13, 2010
Okay, I'm not the only one who read it this way. Awesome stuff nonetheless!
posted by futureisunwritten at 6:48 PM on June 13, 2010
NASA was around in 1172??
Okay, I'm not the only one who read it this way.
Someone reads too many wine reviews.
posted by hippybear at 6:59 PM on June 13, 2010
Okay, I'm not the only one who read it this way.
Someone reads too many wine reviews.
posted by hippybear at 6:59 PM on June 13, 2010
what NASA might have looked like in the year 1172
This image makes me think you're right. What is it doing in there?
posted by Hoenikker at 7:28 PM on June 13, 2010
This image makes me think you're right. What is it doing in there?
posted by Hoenikker at 7:28 PM on June 13, 2010
Oddly enough I do [know] a lot of the photos of the astronauts...
Back when David Letterman had "Know Your Monkey Astronauts" as an alternate quiz to "Know Your Current Events" I went to the trouble of learning to recognize all the monkey (and chimp) astronauts. Not with any intent of going to NY and attending to the show. I just wanted to know my monkey astronauts.
posted by neuron at 7:53 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
Back when David Letterman had "Know Your Monkey Astronauts" as an alternate quiz to "Know Your Current Events" I went to the trouble of learning to recognize all the monkey (and chimp) astronauts. Not with any intent of going to NY and attending to the show. I just wanted to know my monkey astronauts.
posted by neuron at 7:53 PM on June 13, 2010 [1 favorite]
not big enough for backgroundssssssssss
posted by seagull.apollo at 10:58 PM on June 13, 2010
posted by seagull.apollo at 10:58 PM on June 13, 2010
other notes: if you see picture of a Gemini ship in space, it's either Gemini 6 or 7, the only missions of the program to practice rendezvous. See an astronaut on the moon with some weird non Lunar craft? That's Apollo 12, which landed near the Surveyour 3 unmanned craft. Is that a moon walker with red stripe on his suit? It's one of the later missions, after NASA figured out that two guys in identical white suits are hard to tell apart, better put a red stripe on one, probably the commander. are astronauts in a roomy spacecraft? Probably Skylab. And everyone knows who John Young is, RIGHT?!
This collection actually kinda sucks, because a lot of the photos are bad copies of high quality shots.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:09 AM on June 14, 2010
This collection actually kinda sucks, because a lot of the photos are bad copies of high quality shots.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:09 AM on June 14, 2010
This is a beautiful collection, but laughing Nixon looks strange with a body attached. (Thanks, Futurama!)
How do you folks feel about the NASA logo? I saw a redesign yesterday that I found attractive — except for the unnecessary tagline, which reminds me of Irish Rail's lamentable "We're not there yet, but we're getting there".
posted by Stan Carey at 5:12 AM on June 14, 2010
How do you folks feel about the NASA logo? I saw a redesign yesterday that I found attractive — except for the unnecessary tagline, which reminds me of Irish Rail's lamentable "We're not there yet, but we're getting there".
posted by Stan Carey at 5:12 AM on June 14, 2010
I don't think it works, especially across multiple uses and mediums. As I one time poster, it works, but overall, it consistently looks like someone clumsily left something out. And the tagline with an underlined word? It hurts me emotionally to look at it.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:28 AM on June 14, 2010
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:28 AM on June 14, 2010
'it consistently looks like someone clumsily left something out'
You could say that about the universe! But yeah, the underlining makes a poor tagline worse.
posted by Stan Carey at 5:44 AM on June 14, 2010
You could say that about the universe! But yeah, the underlining makes a poor tagline worse.
posted by Stan Carey at 5:44 AM on June 14, 2010
This image makes me think you're right. What is it doing in there?
Halley's comet, no?
posted by joe lisboa at 7:08 AM on June 14, 2010
Halley's comet, no?
posted by joe lisboa at 7:08 AM on June 14, 2010
Hhe should have sorted through the files before just blindly posting them. After all, is there any need for this crappy photo to be online when better versions exist?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:59 AM on June 14, 2010
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:59 AM on June 14, 2010
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