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Space Artists: January 2009
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Thursday, January 22, 2009. Robert McCall Space Art. It is with great sadness that I note that Mr. McCall past away in Scottsdale, AZ. on February 26, 2010 at the age of 90. This site is dedicated to his memory. In 2009, I was able to make one final purchase directly from Robert McCall, just prior to the donation of his entire collection to the University of Arizona for permanent display. The work that I was able to procure is a two by three foot original painting that. Cheever and bank employees gathere...
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Space Artists: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010. Hidden among the sand dunes of the Space Coast there resides an artist with a unique resume. Many of his works make the journey into Space as part of the equipment located on a Shuttle crew member's spacesuit. Tim Gagnon, who goes by the Internet name of "kscartist," has created several crew member patches for various shuttle crews throughout the years. I have been trying to get Tim to paint some original patch art work for me for quite some time, but owing to his busy schedule,...
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Space Artists: January 2008
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Sunday, January 27, 2008. William Hartmann: Scientist, Author and Artist. As you walk through your local book store (now more likely to be Barnes and Noble) and wander down to the isle that has the astronomy and space flight books in it, you will probably find a book written by Dr. William K. Hartmann, PhD. Dr Hartmann performed a "systematic study of lunar photographs projected on a large white globe, with the resulting "rectification" of geometrical relationships." In layman's terms, Bill used the ...
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Space Artists: September 2008
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Friday, September 05, 2008. Alexei Leonov: A Soul in Space. Is it the Russian soul that leads that country's people to produce romantic poets, writers and artists? Whatever the reason, Alexei Leonov is one who has been captured by his motherland's emotional embrace. Already an accomplished artist on both Earth and in space, Alexei brought colored pencils with him on the ASTP flight. He drew a series of sketches of the crew of both spacecraft (Soyuz and Apollo) as well as a self portrait during the mi...
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Space Artists: December 2006
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006. Cece Bibby: The Mercury Artist. If you search hard enough every once in a while you will find a true gem of a person and with them, a story. Cece Bibby is one of those gems. As a graphic artist performing contract work for NASA in the early 1960's, Cece had a ringside seat to the beginnings of manned spaceflight. The above drawing of an optical tracking system is from Cece's portfolio. This particular piece shows the quality of Cece's work as a draftsman. Cece told m...John ...
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Space Artists: December 2005
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005. A Flag on the Moon. To most people the Moon is a mixture of light and dark shades of gray, but there, at six landing sites, is a colorful reminder of Man's presence on the lunar surface. One that has been included in many different artist's interpretation of our landings on the Moon and that is the American Flag. I asked Bill what prompted him to paint this piece. Bill's response surprised me and very much added to emotion of the work. I always have a wistful feeling about t...
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Space Artists: December 2008
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Saturday, December 20, 2008. To the Moon with Snoopy. The above picture shows the back of the painting. Gene Cernan wrote "Flown on A-10. Seen on inflt TV" and signed it. John Young would later sign it in Tucson, AZ during a Novaspace signing. Here is another still photograph from the color television broadcast on the Apollo 10 misson. John Young is holding the Snoopy painting. Credit: Susie Martinez courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. And will run from January 31st to July 20th...
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Lunar Archives: November 2005
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Thursday, November 24, 2005. Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius 3rd Edition. Galileo's discovery of mountains on the lunar surface, which had so long been traditionally thought to have a smooth surface, was pictured in his book by the use of woodcuts as pictured on the pages above. So we have the mountains on the Moon. How does this all relate to Apollo? He signed David Scott, Apollo 15, CDR beneath the inscription. Sometimes unrelated pieces have something in common. The trick is to find that relationship.
