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Re:The Imposter's Handbook by lamacase on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @09:56AM (#12352010)
The cover actually appears to be one of the jpl "visions of the future" posters.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/images/superea...

I hope the author has permission to use it?

Re:The Imposter's Handbook by squeaky-clean on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:35AM (#12352327)
NASA are extremely liberal with how you're allowed to use these images. There are other people selling prints of them, for example.

"Unless otherwise noted, images and video on JPL public web sites (public sites ending with a jpl.nasa.gov address) may be used for any purpose without prior permission, subject to the special cases noted below."

The "special cases" mostly deal with using the NASA or JPL logos, or using photos with real humans in them commercially.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/

Re:The Imposter's Handbook by mrrsm on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:27AM (#12352267)
They do as far as I can tell by reading the license of the images. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/
Re:The Imposter's Handbook by yashinm92 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:42PM (#12374503)
Just bought the book. He has a few paragraphs on the cover image and states "Many thanks to NASA/JPL for allowing reuse."
Re:The Imposter's Handbook by xenophonf on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @10:28AM (#12352272)
IIRC government-produced stuff is all in the public domain.