BRING BACK ASTRONAUTS

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA

Assignment: This assignment has you use the SuperPAC name generator found here and generate a name then get some mashup of data to promote the random SuperPAC.

Process: I went to generate the name for my pseudo-SuperPAC and it happened to come up with “Bring Back Astronauts” as the name for the SuperPac. I went to go find some relevant visuals from Google; but made sure the visuals I got were widely available, and not explicitly copyrighted. My first image I found via APOD, which is a very old and famous site directly from NASA which has astronomy pictures. Then I wanted a budget visual, and the NASA budget numbers are public information so I had no problems finding a graph with that data. I chose to upload the images directly to wordpress as I usually do, because I like to have copies of free data on servers for redundancy instead of linking directly (which is more efficient to be honest)

Story: Though the name chosen was completely random according to the SuperPAC name generator, I totally agree with the name, and we do need a SuperPAC to advocate for more space exploration. Maybe Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC will take on that challenge in real life, but until then, here is my pseudo space-exploration mashup which shows us a beautiful formation of stars brought to us by the guys at NASA. Along with this beautiful image is a graph showing how screwed NASA is, and how screwed space development is in the U.S., and definitely reflects the sad reality of an uninspired populace.