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14 Awesome Space Tourism Travel Posters from NASA (Gallery)

Destination: space - grand tour.

Welcome to Space! The 14 space tourism travel posters in this gallery (The Grand Tour is shown here) were created by artists working with scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of its "Visions of the Future" series. We think they're awesome so buckle up and take a cosmic tour of the posters in this gallery, with captions by NASA. You can download printable versions of these posters here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/ . More on The Grand Tour here: NASA's Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system.

Mars Travel Tours

This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as “historic sites.”

Earth Oasis

There's no place like home. Warm, wet and with an atmosphere that's just right, Earth is the only place we know of with life – and lots of it.

Cloud City on Venus

The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points – journeys such as James Cook's trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and Mercury cross the face of the Sun in 1769.

Ceres: Queen of the Asteroid Belt

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the Sun. It is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of about 965 kilometers.

Sail Under Jupiter's Auroras

The Jovian cloudscape boasts the most spectacular light show in the solar system, with northern and southern lights to dazzle even the most jaded space traveler.

Titan Weather Forecast: Cloudy

Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and a surface shaped by rivers and lakes of liquid ethane and methane.

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See the Jets of Enceladus!

The discovery of Enceladus' icy jets and their role in creating Saturn's E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn.

Dive Beneath Europa's Ocean

Astonishing geology and the potential to host the conditions for simple life make Jupiter's moon Europa a fascinating destination for future exploration.

Wish You Were On 51 Pegasui b!

In 1995, scientists discovered 51 Pegasi b, forever changing the way we see the universe and our place in it.

Kepler 16b: Like Tatooine, But Real

Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn.

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Venus - JPL Travel Poster

The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points – journeys such as James Cook's trek to the South Pacific to watch Venus and Mercury cross the face of the Sun in 1769. Spacecraft now allow us the luxury to study these cosmic crossings at times of our choosing from unique locales across our solar system.

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14 retro space travel posters from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — download free!

Kate - February 18, 2016 , Updated: February 2, 2019

Retro Renovation stopped publishing in 2021; these stories remain for historical information, as potential continued resources, and for archival purposes.

We love vintage travel posters — but how about futuristic space travel posters designed in vintage style? Yes: NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (JPL) have commissioned a new set of 14 posters celebrating space travel — and they are available — FREE — for us to download, print, hang… and ponder. We also found where you can buy already-printed copies of some of the posters, too. 

(P.S. We know we’re late to the www party celebrating these posters, but we need to feature this story anyway, for all present and future retro-crazy generations.)

The 14 space travel posters:

From the news release:

Imagination is our window into the future. New travel posters from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now. You can take a virtual trip to 14 alien worlds, and maybe even plaster your living room with planetary art, via the new, futuristic space tourism posters. The posters are available free for downloading and printing at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/ Last year, five posters depicting planets beyond our solar system were introduced as part of JPL’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau series. They are included in the latest set of 14 posters, which also show such locales as Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s vapor-spewing moon Enceladus, and the dwarf planet Ceres. The posters are the brainchild of The Studio at JPL, a design and strategy team that works with JPL scientists and engineers to visualize and depict complex science and technology topics. Their work is used in designing space missions and in sharing the work of NASA/JPL with the public.

A shout-out to the  Smithsonian,  where Pam first read about these posters.

Two designs by Invisible Creature also for sale as posters:

The Seattle design firm Invisible Creature — owned by brothers Don and Ryan Clark — created three of the posters : The Grand Tour, Mars, and Enceladus. Invisible Creature made prints of three of the posters — UPDATE 3/16/16: They now have the all three of their posters in a special pop-up shop .

Download the posters from NASA/JPL here:

•  >>  Go to this page and click on the poster images to get to the free downloads.

Buy two posters from sale from Invisible Creature here:

• >> The design firm Invisible Creature created three of the posters and has  24″ x 36″ prints of them available  (one already sold out).

More vintage poster possibilities:

• Charley Harper posters from U.S. government stockpiles  (cheap!)
• WPA travel posters, reproduced

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