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AMRO: The company that makes the orange external tank on the Space Shuttle

Ever heard of AMRO? No? Me neither. But according to this Los Angeles Times video, they are the company that makes the panels for the very recognizable orange external tank seen on the former NASA Space Shuttle. As you can imagine, a ton of expertise, craftsmanship, and detail go into making these panels which have been used and re-used many times over the years to bring payload and people into space.

AMRO is currently working on a new project, NASA's Space Launch System, which is the replacement for the retired Space Shuttle. The SLS will hopefully one day bring people to Mars!

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Visions of the Future posters

I love this set of posters from JPL's Vision of the Future series. The latest batch of 3 posters are made by Invisible Creature to help promote intergalactic space travel. Every poster in this series is free to download and use as you see fit. You can print them out as big as you want and plaster your whole room with them. Pretty fantastic, no?

Get them all here.

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