Credits
Whose work is holding this up
Almost nothing here was drawn from scratch. The planet is a photograph, the sky is a telescope's, the astronaut is a real man on a real spacewalk. Some of those licences ask for a name in return, and this is that page.
The astronaut
Bruce McCandless II, untethered — NASA, mission STS-41-B, February 1984. NASA imagery is in the public domain; the name is here because he earned it. On this site he is called Doll Armstrong, which is a joke about a different astronaut entirely.
The planet
Blue Marble and Earth at Night — NASA Earth Observatory / NASA's Visible Earth. Public domain.
The sky
- Westerlund 2 (heic1509a) — NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI) and the Westerlund 2 Science Team.
- The Milky Way panorama — ESO / S. Brunier, CC BY 4.0.
- Moon and Stars (noao0107a) — NOAO / AURA / NSF.
- The two bright stars burning at the edges of the sky are NASA/ESA Hubble and NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb frames, both released for public use.
The rocket
Space Shuttle by Poly by Google, licensed under CC BY 3.0. The model was re-subdivided, re-lit and given its own flames for this site; the original geometry is theirs.
The type
Fraunces by Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi, IBM Plex Mono by IBM, and Cinzel by Natanael Gama — all under the SIL Open Font License.