Astronaut Suicides By Neil DaCosta

Now that the NASA Space Shuttle Program has officially finished, it marks the end of an era and no doubt some American astronauts are left questioning where they stand in the world.
Neil DaCosta (with Sara Phillips on Art Direction) explores that notion with a dark twist in new series of photographs titled "Astronaut Suicides".
This darkly absurd photo series stars a spacesuit-clad astronaut dramatically attempting to kill himself after reading about the end and last hurrah of NASA’s shuttle program in the newspaper. Portland, Oregon-based Neil Dacosta’s Astronaut Suicides features wrist slashing, car gassing, pill chugging…