Official crew poster for ISS Exp. XXI

[Bounty]

http://sfa.nasa.gov/products.cfm



Higher-res versions available at the link. I wonder if it has anything to do with this guy working for NASA.

[tim31]

Nerdocracy wins again

[Thanas]

But why did they have to chose the suckiest starship of them all for the background?

[FedRebel]

TNG uniforms with a NX-01 silhouette for a background...

...for a space station mission

It would have made more sense to go with a Deep Space Nine theme

[open_sketchbook]

The went for NX-01, I think, because it has the most dramatic top-down silhouette.

[Johonebesus]

Is it the Enterprise or the Akira?

[Big Orange]

But why did they have to chose the suckiest starship of them all for the background?

The significant number of average to terrible episodes, and largely uninvolving characters aside, the NX-class was not a badly designed and asthetically unpleasing ship actually (it infamously bore a striking resemblance to the Akira-class).

[Lord Revan]

Is it the Enterprise or the Akira?

probably the NX-01 (seeing as it's the more visible one of them) but it's (next to) impossible to say from a pic like that.

[Bounty]

It is definitely an NX-01 - the Akira has a very different nacelle silhouette.

[tim31]

viz, they hung much further forward off the struts.

[Batman]

Much as I hate the Akiraprize and all it stands for it DOES probably make for the most attractive background. The Nil/A and B/E are too long compared to width and the C and D are too wide across the saucer compared to the rest.
And whose brilliant idea was it to store a bleeping PICTURE as a pdf?

[phongn]

Much as I hate the Akiraprize and all it stands for it DOES probably make for the most attractive background. The Nil/A and B/E are too long compared to width and the C and D are too wide across the saucer compared to the rest.
And whose brilliant idea was it to store a bleeping PICTURE as a pdf?

Uh, so you can print it? It's done all the time.

[Batman]

Last I checked you could print graphics files just fine? If that's about actual POSTER-size posters fine, but I don't think people dowload those off the internet all that often. I just didn't expect a 55MB pdf when downloading what I THOUGHT would be a few-MB at worst JPG or suchlike.

[phongn]

Last I checked you could print graphics files just fine?

Yes, though images with vector content are usually done best with PDF.

If that's about actual POSTER-size posters fine, but I don't think people dowload those off the internet all that often. I just didn't expect a 55MB pdf when downloading what I THOUGHT would be a few-MB at worst JPG or suchlike.

NASA routinely puts very high-quality source image online.

[Batman]

So I found out

[Skylon]

It's not the first time NASA crews have Treked out:



The crew of a 1993 shuttle mission.



And a 1998 one.

[UCBooties]

Those pics are awesome. I wonder if any of them have done Star Wars, BSG, etc...

[Crazedwraith]

BSG would so send the wrong message: We're going up in a shuttle; we expect you to get nuked by the time we come back. Then we're buggering off to the casino planet.

[UCBooties]

BSG would so send the wrong message: We're going up in a shuttle; we expect you to get nuked by the time we come back. Then we're buggering off to the casino planet.

Best. Poster. Ever.