A uni project in response to a 2018 ISTD brief - "anniversaries".
2019 will mark 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing of July 20, 1969. In those 50 years, science has accomplished a lot. Through my posters I constructed a story of the past, present and future of lunar exploration.
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1. The Past
Here are our 121 attempts to send spacecraft to the Moon. Interestingly enough, many of them reached the Moon (shown by the centre line), but never returned. So it's now covered with the debris of over 70 crashed spacecraft, both deliberate and accidental.
2. The Present
I aimed to make this poster something you'd see in a high-school science classroom - packed full of data sets and diagrams, including a labelled map of the lunar nearside, its numerical statistics, orbit, structure, surface composition, and phases.
3. The Future
I created a Venn diagram mapping out the themes of what science fiction has predicted for the Moon's future beyond 2018. It's so interesting to examine the imaginations of writers, who aren't afraid to leap centuries into the future, and see where they've predicted humanity will go.
In addition to the posters, I made a book with three interviews from the three Apollo 11 members. Their observations are full of amazing insights that you just can't get from statistical data. I also produced a foldout diagram of Apollo 11's rocket launch sequence because it was so fascinating and complex.
