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As a Gen Xer, I feel I've been promised the future represented by the logo on this manual, but instead got what we have today... :(
by glimshe 2y ago
As a Gen Xer, I feel I've been promised the future represented by the logo on this manual, but instead got what we have today... :(
- rob74 2y agoYeah, that logo was much too futuristic anyway, it was retired in 1992 and replaced with the old one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia). It probably didn't help that the old logo was associated with the Moon landings, while the most-remembered event from the run of the new logo (introduced in 1975) was the Challenger disaster...
- skissane 2y ago> Yeah, that logo was much too futuristic anyway, it was retired in 1992 and replaced with the old one It was unretired in 2020 – https://www.nasa.gov/general/the-worm-is-back/ https://www.nasa.gov/general/the-worm-is-back/ Both the meatball logo and the "worm" logotype now coexist. The former is the primary NASA logo, the "worm" is only for selected uses, mainly launch vehicles such as certain NASA-contracted Falcon 9 missions, and SLS – https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-mission-nasa-worm-logo https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-mission-nasa-worm-logo
- jaystraw 2y agocops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.
- _kb 2y agoEvery astonishing feat of humanity is built on a tower of accreted now mundane technology (with that word meant in the wider sense, not computers).