Alan Bean may not be the most talented painter in the world, but he’s got one hell of a hook: “the only artist to have walked on the moon.” That’s enough to get some space fans to pay out as much as $175,000 for pieces depicting his NASA experience on Apollo 12 nearly forty years [...]
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Interstellar paintings by someone who’s actually been there
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged *NSync, Alan Bean, astronaut who paints, Lance Bass, NASA, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, space art, Space Coyboys on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Moon dust photography for science and art
Posted in Artists, News, tagged Apollo space missions, Carol and Christopher Kiely, Gary Greenberg, Lehigh University, NASA, photography, science and art on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last man-led mission to the moon was in 1972. It’s no wonder, then, that the limited amount of lunar dust brought back to Earth by the six Apollo missions is kept under tight restrictions by the United States government and experimented on by very few scientists. A really neat story out of The Maui [...]
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