NASA Used Futura All Over the Apollo 11 Mission
26 July 2024 | 5:09 pm

a map of landing zones fro the Apollo 11 mission

a portion of an Apollo 11 spacesuit with two pockets labeled 'jackscrew'

a plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon that reads, in part, 'we came in peace for all mankind'

Futura, the typeface favored by the likes of filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson was also used extensively for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission (along with an American knock-off of Futura called Spartan).

Tags: Apollo · Apollo 11 · design · Futura · Moon · NASA · typography

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