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Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 17 2010, 03:44 PM

I have been at this for a month and I think this is the final art. 23 selected missions outside of Earth orbit. I intend to sell this as a tee on chopshopstore.com and donate 20% of profits to The Planetary Society. We do pretty well with this kind of design having already successfully sold many copies of our robots, aliens, monsters, rock stars… etc. I always wanted to do one based on planetary exploration just for my own satisfaction, but I think people will buy this as well.

Coincidentally, we are helping Radiolab raise funds by selling some designs and that audience is likely to also like the space mission design.

Let me know what you think and if there are any omissions that beg revision. Keep in mind that the design makes it very difficult to move things around. But if a number of you think I REALLY need to drop a Venera for Magellan… I can probably do that.

Posted by: lyford Aug 17 2010, 04:33 PM

Wow! Post the link to the shirt when it is done (if that is allowed in the forum rules) - I want one!

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 17 2010, 04:36 PM

i was hoping that would be the reaction. I always find a lack of nicely designed space merch whenever I look, so… I figure why not just make my own.

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 17 2010, 05:17 PM

I might also make a poster version with an expanded number of included missions. Can't easily add more to the tshirt space.

Posted by: nprev Aug 17 2010, 05:26 PM

Definitely want the shirt!!!

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 18 2010, 01:34 PM

I will post the link when it is up. I will likely have it go pre-order as the printer that is doing this is fantastic… Storenvy (in case anyone is thinking making tees). No way it will come out badly.

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 18 2010, 04:43 PM

Emily suggested I add Hayabusa. So I ditched Mars Express for it. Now the only ESA thing on here I can recall would be the Huygens probe with Cassini.

Posted by: machi Aug 18 2010, 07:14 PM

Isn't there Rosetta with Philae?

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 19 2010, 04:34 AM

yeah… left of Sojourner. I even have the small lander on there next to Rosetta.

Posted by: eoincampbell Aug 19 2010, 05:09 AM

Yes please, great shirt!

Posted by: hendric Aug 19 2010, 08:02 PM

Could you post a decoder ring? I'm not up on all my silhouettes. I can recognize the Pioneers, Voyagers, and Cassini on the outside, but I don't know the one to the left of Galileo at the 11 o'clock position.

Posted by: machi Aug 19 2010, 08:13 PM

I think it's Ulysses, so that another more or less ESA mission.

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 20 2010, 06:27 AM

Okay…

From top left to right — moving down

1. Ulysses (Jupiter gravity assist)
2. Galileo and Jupiter Probe (adjacent to Jupiter)
3. New Horizons
4. Pioneer 10
5. Mariner 9 (first to orbit another planet)
6. Venera 4 (first to return data from another planet)
7. Phoenix
8. Voyager 2 (adjacent to Uranus and Neptune)
9. Hayabusa and sample return
10. Apollo 11 and astronauts (adjacent to Earth/Moon)
11. Deep Impact and Impactor
12. Mars Recon
13. Venera 13 or 14 (adjacent to Venus)
14. Mars Global Surveyor
15. Rosetta with Philae
16. Sojourner Mars rover (adjacent to Mars)
17. Messenger (adjacent to Mercury)
18. Spirit or Opportunity Mars rover
19. Dawn (adjacent to Asteroid Belt and Ceres)
20. Viking 1 or 2
21. Voyager 1
22. Pioneer 11
23. Cassini and Huygens Probe (adjacent to Saturn)

Posted by: hendric Aug 20 2010, 07:02 PM

Thanks! Love the design.

Posted by: nprev Aug 20 2010, 07:21 PM

Agreed; it's beyond sweet!

Looking forward to sporting it amongst the masses for puzzled looks & the occasional interested inquiry; outreach comes in many forms.

Posted by: Juramike Aug 20 2010, 07:46 PM

That would make an excellent quiz!

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 20 2010, 10:01 PM

Yes… it does. I make these kinds of designs for our tee shop and a few blogs with loyal commenters have numbered and posted them so everyone takes guesses at every robot, alien or whatever the theme is. I was too stupid to see that coming and when I saw people doing it on their own it was a pretty cool feeling. So, unlike here… I NEVER give out the answers because then people just search it online. No fun.

I did one for water access issues for a charity as well. The numbers were based on actual stats which were printed on the inside of the tee under the custom label.

Posted by: Stu Aug 20 2010, 10:07 PM

I bet you'd sell a shipping containerfull of "Dr Who Monsters" t-shirts if you ever designed one...

Posted by: mgrodzki Aug 21 2010, 12:55 AM

Maybe… but too much from any one source is trouble. If you catch my drift.

I think I have only the Dalek on the alien one.

Posted by: mgrodzki Sep 17 2010, 11:53 PM

Hey, my first exposure on The Planetary Society blog. They are running it also in the publication so I hear.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00002671/

I made this goofball image for the tee also. That is my big dumb head in there.

Posted by: mgrodzki Sep 18 2010, 01:43 PM

Oh by the way, its available now: http://www.chopshopstore.com/product.php?productid=16299

We’re donating $5 per copy sold to the Planetary Society. I also added the ability for people to join PS for $12 less than their usual membership fee. 4 people used that to join in one day. Not too bad!

Posted by: hendric Sep 18 2010, 02:28 PM

Bought shirts for everyone in the family. They look really sharp, and will make great conversation starters!

Posted by: mgrodzki Sep 18 2010, 06:52 PM

I saw that. Impressive purchase!

Posted by: Tom Gwilym Sep 21 2010, 07:06 PM

My shirt has been ordered!

Posted by: tharrison Sep 22 2010, 03:14 PM

Bought a shirt for myself, and passed the link on to the rest of the science folks here at MSSS, so I'm sure there will be more purchases! Love the design!

(My inner geek totally wants a shirt like this of the various ships from Star Trek...)

Posted by: nprev Sep 22 2010, 04:10 PM

Just ordered mine.

Posted by: mgrodzki Sep 23 2010, 04:43 AM

Very awesome… got posted to boingboing yesterday. Already have reprints ordered.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/21/23-great-space-missi.html

It got picked up in so many places, and they all linked liberally to The Planetary Society. So, I hope they have been seeing a notable increase in traffic as well. Boing is the holy grail of getting blog-posted. Well, maybe Oprah.

Posted by: hendric Oct 11 2010, 02:26 PM

LOL, guess I am going to have to get another one. The XL I got for my wife was apparently a youth XL. Who knew?

Posted by: mgrodzki Nov 27 2010, 01:59 AM

It wasn’t a kids… I know… crazy. Our customers largely WANT American Apparel tees. The women’s are crazy fitted small. An XL looks like a MED at best. The info can be had here: http://store.americanapparel.net/2102.html

The men’s are fitted as well, but more like an in between. A LRG will feel more like a MED/LRG. More information can be found here: http://store.americanapparel.net/2001.html

Posted by: nprev Nov 27 2010, 03:32 AM

I got mine (men's XL) a few weeks back--love it!

Wore it to the hospital for my latest surgery, which resulted in a few inquiries from the medical staff about just what the hell the design was, which in turn provided an excellent opportunity for extemporaneous UMSF education...