Earlier this week we lamented the loss of a movie that never existed, a new Alien movie from Neill Blomkamp, by gallivanting through the web in search of random memorabilia. It was a joy. The final item of that list was a faux travel poster for one planet of particular importance in the Alien universe, LV-426. Though fictional, traveling to such a planet isn’t so far from the imaginations of many, especially the imaginations of people who work at NASA, that place that’s eventually going private under the leadership of a man named Charles Bishop Weyland.

In any case, NASA’s put out it’s own wonderfully inventive travel posters of exoplanets that actually do exist, yet are still unreachable by the average tourist.

Named for the NASA telescope that discovered it, Kepler-186f will always be the first planet discovered in the “habitable zone,” that distance from its own sun that suggests the potential for liquid water on the surface. These posters are part of an ongoing series out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the California Institute of Technology. The website, dubbed Planet Quest, is devoted to the search for habitable planets. It’s fitting, then, that this theoretically reddish planet (due to the wavelengths of its sun known to be redder than our own) should have its own poster.

According to the Planet Quest website as of publication date, NASA’s confirmed the existence 1,89 exoplanets (those outside our solar system), with another 3,199 candidates (those that need further evidence for official listing). Most of this is due to the Kepler telescope, which launched into orbit around the Earth in 2009. It was designed for the specific purpose of discovering other Earth-like planets.

The other two posters are just as fun, if not as nostalgic. The only thing left, really, is actually naming these things. We’ve definitely got some more Roman Gods left in the bank.

Some might feel satisfied with a Star Wars reference for Kepler-16b. Others might remember the planet from the only Vin Diesel movie that ever mattered, Pitch Black. And no, let’s not remember the sequels.

Here at Ben’s we like to set you up with some sweet deals, and these posters are no exception. In fact, they’re the best deals ever: free. NASA’s versions of theses images are offered at staggeringly large sizes, ripe for the downloading and printing at your own convenience and customization. Maybe you should find a Kinko’s, if those still exist (they’re just FedEx’s now).

3 NASA Exoplanet Travel Posters That Should Be On Your Wall

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the tiny plastic starship Enterprise. Its 1-day mission: to explore the farthest reaches of our atmosphere, to hover about awkwardly while attached to a big balloon, to boldly go where no geek has gone before! Beating Archer, Pike, and Kirk to the punch, Steve Schnier has officially become the first man to guide Star Trek’s USS Enterprise into space. Sure, it may only have been a model of the legendary starship, but I’m still mightily impressed.

Schnier was looking at his Star Trek Limited Edition USS Enterprise Packaging Blu-ray about six months ago when the thought hit him, “This would look REALLY cool in space.” Using a  weather balloon and carefully mounted GoPro cameras, the intrepid adventurer launched his Enterprise on April 28th, recording every second of the voyage. “The little spacecraft that could” reached 95,568 feet and traveled at a top speed of 63 knots. Hmm, I wonder how many warp factors that is. You can check out the amazing footage for yourself below (complete with obligatory lens flare), but be warned, it might cause sudden fits of childlike wonder. And be sure to visit Schnier’s blog for more details on how he made his geeky dream a reality.

Now that Schnier’s model has technically become the first USS Enterprise starship to fly in space — effectively rewriting the entire Star Trek canon — has he inadvertently created yet another new timeline? Will we now be treated to revisionist adventures of a miniature Kirk and Spock? Well, I think I speak for all Trekkies when I say… bring it on!

The USS Enterprise Launches into Space… Sort of