Space Tourism: NASA JPL’s “Visions of the Future” Poster Series

The desire to learn more about our universe and dream of ways to venture beyond the gravitational limits of our home world begin with imagination, and when each generation dares to dream bigger, bolder and differently than previous generations, that’s when great leaps of innovation and inspiration can occur.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab hopes this series of imaginative space travel destination posters may inspire the next group of scientists, explorers and dreamers to build a future in the stars for humanity.

Visions of the Future: The Grand Tour — 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. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable science from the far reaches of our solar system.

Visions of the Future: Mars — NASA’s Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Mission like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among many others, have provided important information in understanding of the habitability of Mars. 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.”

You can view all of the posters in this series, and download your own high resolution versions of them from the JPL website.

Website: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Visions of the Future
Website: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: 20 Years of Exoplanets (images, infographics and resources)

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