Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Space Truckin' 1981 - 2010 Commemorative Space Shuttle T-shirt


I can print this design because I feel like I own this subject. In 1981 I drove and saw the first Space Shuttle launch in Cocoa Beach Florida. The next year I had traveled back to Florida and started hitch hiking back to California. I only had $50 to my name, but I invested it all into some t-shirts, razor blades and spray paint. Then I cut out a stencil and before the second launch of the Space Shuttle I had made some t-shirts and sold them during the launch. I didn't make a profit, but I had fun and it was quite the experiment in trying to make event shirts with nothing. Now it's almost 30 years later and the Space Shuttle is being retired. I've always wanted to make a Space Truckin' shirt so if I don't make it now, then I'll never make it. I'll dig out my old photo of the first space shuttle launch too, just to give perspective on this whole thing.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

cool story..whats with the comment below me? poverty tries friends??what the hell does that mean?

Bill W said...

Just more random advertisements, I'll never understand, but I did find one strange link with young girls holding cats.

dan.noye said...

Oddly enough searching Google for "Space Truckin' T-Shirt" brought this up, hahaha. I want one man!