I didn’t make that logo, I got it from google images.
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KSP, definitely the best and most accessible space agency.
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My Space Program accesses the ground regularly. We’re also working on accessing heaven and hell, but we lose contact with our Kerbalnauts too quickly.
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I managed to get into orbit, visit Mun and Minmus —there and return— then strand some poor green sucker on Duna and crash some others into Laythe. And learned a bit about rocketry and orbital dynamics in the process. But real life gets in the way and I haven’t played in months … 
(The Kerbol Planetary System, for those who don’t know what where we’re on about).
Edit note: Better now, @slybevel ? 
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I’ve had a lot of fun with KSP. I get hyperfocused in the sandbox trying to build bigger and faster rockets. In campaign I’ve landed and returned from Mun, Minmus and Duna, and have sent probes to land on Eve.
My ADHD brain can’t handle the prep work it takes to actually get places. So I do end up using mech jeb a lot to layin a course that’ll at least get me near where I want to go, and combining Mechjeb’s translatron with smart ASS makes non-atmospheric landings easy enough that I never had to spend the hours practicing the correct way to land. Just set the translatron to 0m/s and set smart ASS to point radial in surface mode, and watch burn till it’s hovering beautifully, then set translatron to -2m/s and watch the ship set itself down gently on the surface (provided you’ve brought enough fuel to waste on a landing like that).
Scott Manley makes it look so effortlessly easy.
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You mean Kerbal Space Program, natch.
What a guy!
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So that’s how they get the rockets going so fast! I gotta try it in KSP!
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Ah, but do you know what the “swoosh” actually was?
(Until now I’d not realised that the meatball and the worm weren’t used at the same time)
It reminds me of Dad’s Army
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Holy hell. Arrow fetish? No wonder space exploration has stagnated.
I wondered, naively, if there was any hope in the last two decades of private aerospace sector. You know, the supposedly forward thinking startups backed by billionaire geniuses, angel investors, venture capital and all that jazz.
Surely those, free of government bullshit, would never allow amateurish, unpaid-intern-level design represent their precious brands, right? Right?
Yeah.
Can you guess which ones in this sorry lot are current-bubble active/promising and which ones are last-bubble defunct/bankrupt?
So, there’s that. Earth’s finest efforts for space exploration. Hope you like this planet, because we’re clearly never leaving it again.
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I dont get the love for the Meatball. Yes, “it was the logo used for the moon landings.” Do we still use ferrite core computers? Or crew cuts? Or fedoras? Those were used in the time of the moon landings too…
This was the face of NASA: This is the face of NASA:
Bring back the goddam worm.
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You forgot JAXA:
Seems to be the only one with a star in its typography. The only logo I like more is the Worm… Meatball’s '50s typeface looks very tired to me.
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The Canadian National Railways CN logo (aka Tapeworm Rampant) was designed by Allan Fleming in 1959 and launched in 1960.
Fleming also designed the much-imitated Ontario Hydro logo (aka Horse’s Ass) in 1962, launched 1965.
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The hair is surprisingly similar, conceptually speaking.
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Burn the heretic!!!
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