NASA commemorates Space Shuttle Program with poster. Image Credit/NASA
Award winning cartoonist Brian Basset’s characters “Red and Rover” chase a descending space shuttle in a new NASA poster commemorating the soon to retire shuttle program.
The 30-year-old program will retire this summer after 135 missions.
The final mission, a 12-day flight aboard the shuttle Atlantis, is tentatively set to lift off for the International Space Station, on June 28.
Basset created his characters, who frequently dream of traveling in space, more than a decade ago. Red and Rover, syndicated by Universal Uclick, appears in 160 newspapers.
Pictured in the lower right corner of the poster, What a Ride it’s Been!, is the patch selected by NASA to pay tribute to the shuttle program’s long run.