Nasa Posters and Art Prints for Sale
Description: Diagram on the cover of Voyager Golden Records. The records are included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them. The diagram shows how to play the record with the cartridge included on Voyager, explanation of the video portion of the record, as well as the location of our sun and the states of the hydrogen atom.
Description: A "mission patch" for the "WEST AREA COMPUTING UNIT", celebrating the women of colour working as computers (the original, human kind) calculating orbits for the engineers at NASA's predecessor NACA in the 40's and 50's. They were portrayed in the book and film Hidden Figures. The smoke from the rocket is made up of actual equations from one of computer Katherine Johnson's technical reports. The rocket is the Atlas LV-3B carrying the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 with John Glenn in 1962.
