Comments on: NASA's ascent of man?

Question: NASA's ascent of man?

jgee — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:34:58 -0800

I was introduced to a fantastic image linked here on MetaFilter years ago. The image was a standard riff on the ascent of man motif, with the final Homo Sapiens looking up to the stars, and a message along the lines of "At NASA, we know where our future lies." If my memory stills works, it was originally a poster. Can anyone help me locate this? Apparently, my google-fu hasn't evolved since then, and constant browsing of NASA's image archive has been fruitless.

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:38:42 -0800

I had a bit of a look around but nada, I'm afraid. In the absence of receiving an actual answer here, perhaps email NASA and ask - there's an address of the bottom of the image archive page you posted.

By: jgee

jgee — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:46:07 -0800

Thanks for trying, it's much appreciated.

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:47:18 -0800

Piggyback: I've been told of another riff on the Ascent of Man that I have yet to find: Each species, taller and standing straighter, has the species name underneath, until we reach "homo sapiens", then the next man - standing taller and straighter yet - is labelled "dancer".

By: peacay

peacay — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:07:50 -0800

Hey jgee, is this similar to it - it's got an astronaut anyway? It came from this image search. Alas, if you had an email address in your profile, I could alert you that there was another answer here. There's a few variations on the theme.
Not the answer:

By: jgee

jgee — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:39:35 -0800

Ooh, that is close, certainly better than anything I've found. The one I'm thinking of did not have an astronaut, just a man looking at the stars. Again, thanks for trying!