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The NASA Fine Art Program was established in 1962. NASA administrator, James Webb , jump-started the program by recommending artists to become involved in the agency. [ 1 ] Artists, including Norman Rockwell , Robert Rauschenberg , Malcolm H. Smith and Andy Warhol were commissioned to record the history of space exploration through the eyes of ...
McCall's work can be found on U.S. postage stamps, and also NASA mission patches such as for Apollo 17. [7] [8] He has created murals for the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, The Pentagon, Epcot, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space probes sent to Mars, Viking I and Viking II. Each vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served as communication relays for the landers once they ...
Pages in category "Films about NASA" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Armageddon (1998 film)
Reinert and editor Susan Korda sifted through six million feet (1.8 million meters) of footage and 80 hours of NASA interviews to create the documentary. To copy the original film held at the Johnson Space Center, Reinert had to take an optical printer and scan each frame from the original 16mm film and enlarge to 35mm. It took him 18 months to ...
Trouvelot, The great nebula in Orion (1875).. Astronomical art is a genre of space art that focuses on visual representations of outer space.It encompasses various themes, including the space environment as a new frontier for humanity, depictions of alien worlds, representations of extreme phenomena like black holes, and artistic concepts inspired by astronomy.
A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...
The NASA seal was created in 1958 by George Neago, a staff industrial artist who worked at the Lockheed Missiles Division in Palo Alto, California.James Modarelli was the manager of the Lockheed Missiles Division's Reports Department in 1958 and Neago's supervisor.