Description: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance landed on the Red Planet 18 February 2021. With it it carried Ingenuity, the first helicopter to visit another planet. The landing parachute became famous for its hidden message composed in binary code using the colour fields of the fabric, conveying the message "Dare mighty things", the JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) motto, taken from a Theodore Roosevelt speech.
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.
Description: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance landed on the Red Planet 18 February 2021. With it it carried Ingenuity, the first helicopter to visit another planet. The landing parachute became famous for its hidden message composed in binary code using the colour fields of the fabric, conveying the message "Dare mighty things", the JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) motto, taken from a Theodore Roosevelt speech.
Description: JWST, or the James Webb Space Telescope, will observe the universe in near-infrared light to study the first stars and galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, the evolution of galaxies, stars and planetary systems, and the origins of life. It is planned to be launched on December 22 2021 Infrared photo credit: NASA
Description: Happy Birthday Hubble! 24 April 2020 it's 30 years since ESA's and NASA's space telescope was launched into orbit. It has since provided us with awe inspiring photographs of the universe, that has amazed the general public for their beauty and been a great contribution to astronomy. Our celebration art shows Hubble against a backdrop inspired by star cluster.
