1967 JPL employment ad, remixed: now with more Mars Curiosity "Mohawk Guy"

Xeni Jardin 9:13 am Sun Sep 2, 2012

Hahah! Boing Boing reader William Jaspers saw the 1967 ad for jobs at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory I posted yesterday, which ran in Scientific American—and with a little help from Photoshop, he updated it to feature the MSL space celeb Bobak "Mohawk Guy" Ferdowsi, who works on the Mars Curiosity team at JPL.

Now all they need is a reversal of those devastating budget cuts so JPL can hire more space-dreamers, instead of laying them off, and the vintage ad will really be true again 45 years later.
Larger size here.

* Thanks again to reader fdecomite for scanning and sharing the original.

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