It’s the future, people. How can I tell? I can tell because we keep sending cameras I can actually buy into space!

Firstly, I remember right after buying my Olympus E-3 (I call it “Leon”) that Olympus sent some E-3s and lenses into space in a joint effort with JAXA. They’re now part of a project on the international space station.

Then, some enterprising MIT students sent a Canon Powershot A470 into shallow space in a cooler. A friggin’ cooler!

And now, our very own NASA is upgrading it’s D2xs to Nikon’s new standard flagship, the D3s. Imaging Resource has a press release saying they’ve ordered 11 of’em. So take that, naysayers and fence-sitters, whether or not you feel the D3 was as big a refresh as you’d expected, it’s big enough to convince NASA. And they shot the moon with a rocket, so you know they need their toys to be tough.

Now, since it’s now the Future, where are my moving sidewalks? Come on already!