NASA celebrates Kepler discoveries with vintage-inspired poster series for 'out of this world' holidays
NASA has marked the discovery of potentially habitable worlds by its Kepler space observatory with a poster series imagining the 'out of this world' holiday options they may one day offer.
Drawing inspiration from travel billboards of the 20s, 30s and 40s, the posters are the brainchild of NASA visual strategists Joby Harris, David Delgado and Dan Goods.
Delgado told CNN: "I was thinking, we may be not alone. We're entering a new part of our humanity and one of the natural things that came to mind is what would it be like to visit them…and wouldn't it be fun to make vacation posters. It felt like a natural fit."
"People gravitate toward those old posters. They hang them on their walls even today and you want to go there. They're a celebration of place," added Harris, who served as the lead artist on the project.
"So we thought we'd producer some of our own and come up with funny tag lines that would get people dreaming about what it would be like to go there."
The posters release comes as NASA confirms the latest discoveries, which brings Kepler's planetary total to more than 1,000 discoveries since its launch in 2009.