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Mike Machat TITLE: "Hun Over the Top," acrylic

NASA flew a number of F-100's at several of the US Air Force test centers, but one aircraft was most unusual in it's configuration. NASA A/C Number 53-1709 was a hybrid aircraft built from an F10.

Hun Over the Top
Mike Machat TITLE: "AB to Go, Stick on the Side," oil

NASA F-107 No. 55120. The North American F-107 was a most unique aircraft, and although never produced in quantity, served as a high-speed test bed for NASA from 1957 to 1959.

AB to Go, Stick on the Side
Angela Manno TITLE: "Self Discovery," Batik and photo heat transfer

On September 29, 1988, the Space Shuttle Discovery was launched and lifted NASA and America back to space. Artist Angela Manno was one of a six member art team.

Self Discovery
Fletcher Martin TITLE: "Second Stage Apollo 14," oil

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 34" x 24"

Second Stage Apollo 14
John Massimino TITLE: "The Dream Must Go On," gouache painting

Symbolism dominates the artist's expression of his feelings regarding the Challenger tragedy. The bird in flight, the spacecraft, waiting for its turn to fly, is silhouetted through the windows of the VAB. The idea that the space program is alive and will rebuild what needs rebuilding. Then the dream will go on. Mission 51-L, January 28, 1986, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 32" x 31"

The Dream Must Go On
Betty Maxey TITLE: "Voyage of Endeavor," gouache

The artist highlights the crew and mission activities of Endeavor's maiden space flight. Features include rendezvous, repair and reboost of a crippled communications satellite and three days of spacewalks to demonstrate Space Station Freedom assembly techniques. (NASA Art Program) .Art size: 15" x 21"

Voyage of Endeavor
Alfred McAdams TITLE: "Rollback," watercolor

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 27-1/2"

Rollback
Alfred McAdams TITLE: "Space Shuttle Columbia Landscape," acrylic painting done on location

As the Columbia is readied for her first operational flight into space. November 10, 1982, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 15" x 22-1/2"

Space Shuttle Columbia Landscape
Alfred McAdams TITLE: "Waiting for Touchdown," oil

This painting of the landing site for the STS-9 (Spacelab 1) mission is a panoramic view of the dry-lake bed with the distant San Bernardino Mountains at the Edwards Air Force Base and Dryden Flight Research Facility. On the left side, the artist is making a sketch at the fly-by tower next to the reviewing stand where the astronauts' families are waiting. In the right foreground are spectators, tracking equipment, and a surrealistic view of abandoned installations on the southwest edge of the dry-lake. Columbia landed at 3:47 p.m. (PST) on December 8, 1983. (NASA Art Program) Art size: Two matching panels, each 24" x 48"

Waiting for Touchdown
Alfred McAdams TITLE: "View of Pad B," oil

This painting of Pad B, complex 39 as viewed from Pad A, was done after the Apollo 12 launch in 1969. (NASA Art Program) Art size: Two pieces 50" x 50" each"

View of Pad B
Maxine McCaffrey TITLE: "Capcom," acrylic

Chief Astronaut Deke Slayton and Capsule Communicator (Capcom) Astronaut Stuart Roosa carefully listen to the voices of the Earth-orbiting Apollo 9 crew as they prepare for a space walk. The Apollo 9 mission was March 3-13, 1969. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 28-1/4" x 36"

Capcom
Maxine McCaffrey TITLE: "Apollo 9 Lift Off," acrylic

Technicians in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, carefully monitor the early moments of the launch of Apollo 9. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 29" x 35-1/2"

Apollo 9 Lift Off
Louise McCall TITLE: "Sally Ride, STS-7 - First American Woman in Space," monoprint

The presence of astronaut Sally Ride, who earned the distinction of becoming the first American Woman in Space, is expressively symbolized in this art. Challenger was launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 15" x 18"

Sally Ride, STS-7 - First American Woman in Space
Robert McCall TITLE: "Rollout (Saturn/Apollo)," watercolor

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 30-1/2" x 43-1/2"

Rollout (Saturn/Apollo)
Robert McCall TITLE: "Space Shuttle Concept," mixed media

This early concept created in 1972 depicts the Space Shuttle orbiter deploying a satellite. To the left, an astronaut is performing Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). (NASA Art Program) Art size: 25" x 45"

Space Shuttle Concept
Robert McCall TITLE: "Rendezvous, Apollo Story Lithograph," color Lithograph

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 35" x 27"

Rendezvous, Apollo Story Lithograph
Robert McCall TITLE: "Launch, Apollo Story Lithograph 1A," color lithograph

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 38" x 30-1/2"

Launch, Apollo Story Lithograph 1A
Robert McCall TITLE: "Splashdown," color lithograph-77/190

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 35" x 27"

Splashdown
Robert McCall TITLE: "Lunar Landing," color lithograph-77/190

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 27" x 35"

Lunar Landing
Robert McCall TITLE: "Early Space Shuttle Concept"

Washington, D.C. - The Space Shuttle, a manned reusable space vehicle, which will be used for a wide variety of space missions in the Earth orbit. The Shuttle will consist of a manned reusable orbiter, mounted at launch 'piggy back' on a large expendable. Art size: 30" x 48"

Early Space Shuttle Concept
Robert McCall TITLE: "Orbiter Transfer"

This picture of the Space Shuttle Orbiter move from the Rockwell International assembly facility at Palmdale, California to the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California was made by Artist Robert McCall..(NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 29-1/2"

Orbiter Transfer
Robert McCall TITLE: "Palmdale to Edwards"

This picture of the Space Shuttle Orbiter move from the Rockwell International assembly facility at Palmdale, California to the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards California was made by Artist Robert McCall. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 29-1/2"

Palmdale to Edwards
Robert McCall TITLE: "Space Shuttle Enterprise "Rollout"

Artist Robert McCall paints his version of the roll out of the NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter 101 named Enterprise. Palmdale, California, September 12, 1978. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 72" x 72"

Space Shuttle Enterprise - Rollout
Robert McCall TITLE: "Mate Demate Facility"

This picture of the Space Shuttle Orbiter move from the Rockwell International assembly facility at Palmdale, California to the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards California was made by Artist Robert McCall. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 29-1/2"

Mate Demate Facility
Robert McCall TITLE: "Lights," watercolor painting done on location

Painting of the Columbia on the illuminated pad waiting for her second flight into space, November 12, 1981, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 10-1/4" x 14"

Lights
Robert McCall TITLE: "Enterprise during the over land journey from Palmdale to DFRC," watercolor

watercolor done on location of the Enterprise during the over land journey from Palmdale to Dryden Flight Research Center, California, February 1, 1977. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 12-7/8" x 14-5/8"

Enterprise during the over land journey from Palmdale to DFRC
Robert McCall TITLE: "Birds," watercolor

Painting shows the surrounding landscape as the Columbia waits for its first flight into space, Kennedy Space Center, April 1981. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 10" x 16"

Birds
Robert McCall TITLE: "Launch Landscape," watercolor

Painting of the Space Shuttle Columbia as she awaits her second flight into space (STS-2), November, 1981, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 10" x 16"

Launch Landscape
Robert McCall TITLE: "STS-1 Columbia," watercolor

The Columbia Space Shuttle is prepared for her first flight into space. Kennedy Space Center, April 10, 1981. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 16" x 10"

STS-1 Columbia
Robert McCall TITLE: "Columbia at Booster Separation," oil

The solid rocket booster separate from the orbiter and external tank during the first flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981 at Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 54" x 38"

Columbia at Booster Separation
Robert McCall TITLE: "Columbia in Orbit STS-1," monotype

The artist's view of the Space Shuttle Columbia in orbit with cargo bay doors open. STS-1, Columbia's first flight into space April 12, 1981, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 30"

Columbia in Orbit STS-1
Robert McCall TITLE: "Ready for Launch," watercolor

The Columbia on the pad waiting for her third flight into space (STS-3), March 22, 1981, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size:.11-1/2" x 14-1/2"

Ready for Launch
Robert McCall TITLE: "Columbia - STS-1," monotype

The first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center, April 12, 1981. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 30"

Columbia - STS-1
Robert McCall TITLE: "Reflections," watercolor

The Columbia crew John Young and Bob Crippen awaits the morning launch of the Space Shuttle (STS-1), April 12, 1981, Kennedy Space Center. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 15" x 22-1/4"

Reflections
Robert McCall TITLE: "Space Shuttle Columbia's First Landing," monotype

The Columbia approaches in a dramatic head-on view against a star strewn sky to her first landing in the California desert, April 14, 1981, Dryden Flight Research Facility. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 30" x 41"

Space Shuttle Columbia's First Landing
Robert McCall TITLE: "Hail Columbia," monotype

The Space Shuttle Columbia's first landing in the California desert, April 14, 1981, Dryden Flight Research Facility. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 30"

Hail Columbia
Robert McCall TITLE: "Threshold," acrylic

As a member of the NASA Art Program team, he covered the Space Shuttle Challenger and the flight of the first woman in space, Sally Ride. McCall's painting symbolizes through the Space Shuttle Challenger, the rapid rush of technology as the spacecraft explodes off the pad and for a moment, is poised on the threshold of new worlds. June 1983, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 36" x 36"

Threshold
Robert McCall TITLE: "Welcome Aboard," acrylic

(NASA Art Program) Art size: 30-1/8" x 42-1/4"

Welcome Aboard
Robert McCall TITLE: "Space Shuttle Concept 1"

Washington, DC - The Space Shuttle is a manned reusable space vehicle which will be used for a wide variety of space missions in Earth orbit. The Shuttle will consist of a manned reusable orbiter, mounted at launch 'piggy back' on a large expendable prop. Art size: 28-1/2" x 46-1/2" "

Space Shuttle Concept 1
John W. McCoy TITLE: "Red Gantry"

NASA under its Artists Cooperative Program had eight artists assigned to Astronaut Cooper's MA-9 mission. Approximately sixty sketches have been selected, from the hundreds of drawings made by the eight artists, for release. These sketches will be used by the artists to complete finished paintings. MA-9 was the first occasion in which the artists were invited to participate under NASA contract. Art size: 20-1/2" x 26-1/2"

Red Gantry
John W. McCoy TITLE: "First Light," watercolor

Art size: 29-1/2" x 37-1/2"

First Light
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "Crew Arrival - First Free Flight," watercolor

Art size: 29" x 37"

Crew Arrival - First Free Flight
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "Canary Island Tracking Station," watercolor

Landscape view during the Gemini Missions, of personnel having lunch in a restaurant across the road from the NASA Tracking Station, Nagpalomas, Canary Island, 1965. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 29" x 36-1/2"

Canary Island Tracking Station
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "The Yellow Truck," watercolor

Art size: 36-1/4" x 29"

The Yellow Truck
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "Stacking the Saturn"

Washington - Lunar Module Mission Simulator, Kennedy Space Center, FL. Art size: 37" x 28-1/2"

Stacking the Saturn
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "Orbiter & 747 Mated"

Art size: 29" x 37"

Orbiter & 747 Mated
Franklin McMahon TITLE: "Touchdown at Press Site"

Art size: 29-1/2" x 38"

Touchdown at Press Site
Mark McMahon TITLE: "Preparation of the Space Shuttle Columbia," pencil with watercolor wash painting

Surrounded by the seemingly continual activities of the NASA work crews, the Columbia is prepared for her maiden flight into space. Kennedy Space Center, April 1981. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 39-1/2" x 25-1/2"

Preparation of the Space Shuttle Columbia
Mark McMahon TITLE: "Launch Day - Launch Window STS-4," watercolor

STS-4 awaits final countdown from complex 39's pad A Kennedy Space Center. June 27, 1982. (NASA Art Program) .Art size: 26" x 40-1/2"

Launch Day - Launch Window STS-4
Mark McMahon TITLE: "T-minus 2 Days - STS-4," watercolor

Final preparation of STS-4 are being completed with the rotating service structure in its work position. Kennedy Space Center, June 25, 1982. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 30" x 22-1/2"

T-minus 2 Days - STS-4
Ron Miller TITLE: "View from Mimas"

On November 12, 1980, the Voyager spacecraft photograph of the wonders of the solar system on the Saturnian satellite Mimas. There is an enormous impact crater, more than a quarter the diameter of the small moon.

View from Mimas
Ron Miller TITLE: "Installation of the Plasma Diagnostic Package, OSS-3," watercolor

The Plasma Diagnostics Package (PDP) being installed by technicians on the ESA Spacelab pallet at Goddard Space Flight Center in preparation for launch of the OSS-3 payload on the Space Transportation System (STS). (NASA Art Program) Art size: 14" x 22-1/2"

Installation of the Plasma Diagnostic Package, OSS-3
Wendell Minor TITLE: "Green for Go-America Returns to Space," acrylic on masonite

As the redesigned Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off, it also lifted NASA and America back to Space. Artist Wendell Minor was one of a six-member art team covering the event. The artist was impressed with the co-existence of man-made technology in a wildlife preserve. This visual impression of the eagle in flight, plus the theme of the green ribbon representing Green for Go, became the basic elements for the concept of this painting. Discovery was launched on September 29, 1988 and landed October 3 on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 16" x 36"

Green for Go-America Returns to Space
Wendell Minor TITLE: "Good Morning Discovery," watercolor

As the redesigned Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off, it also lifted NASA and America back to space. Artist Wendell Minor was one of a six-member art team covering the event. He produced this on-location study while positioned at the press site at dawn, as the bright shafts of searchlights illuminated the pad. STS-26, Discovery, was launched on September 29, 1988 and landed October 3 on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 10" x 14"

Good Morning Discovery
Wendell Minor TITLE: "24 Hours Before Launch," watercolor

As the redesigned Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off, it also lifted NASA and America back to space. Artist Wendell Minor was one of a six-member art team covering the event. He produced this on-location study while positioned on the perimeter road of the launch pad. STS-26, Discovery, was launched on September 29, 1988 and landed October 3 on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 10" x 14"

24 Hours Before Launch
Pierre Mion TITLE: "Astronauts Explore the Moon"

Artist Pierre Mion's painting of "Astronauts Explore the Moon." It dramatizes the immense size of the lunar craters and mountains on the lunar surface. Art size: 10' x 40'

Astronauts Explore the Moon
Pierre Mion TITLE: "The Surgeons," acrylic

This painting of the first Space Shuttle payload (OSTA-1 Level IV Integration) at Kennedy Space Center is by artist Pierre Mion. Art size: 30" x 24"

The Surgeons
Greg Mort TITLE: "Final Approach," watercolor

Spacecraft now turned airplane, the orbiter glides home using its wings for the first time. STS-7, launched from Kennedy Space Center June 18, 1983 and landed at Dryden Flight Research Facility in California on June 24, 1983. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 22" x 29"

Final Approach
Greg Mort TITLE: "Two Days and Counting," watercolor

Forty-eight hours before liftoff STS-7 stands silent and still on Pad 39-A. Kennedy Space Center, June 16, 1983. (NASA Art Program) .Art size: 13" x 21"

Two Days and Counting
Greg Mort TITLE: "Morning Launch," watercolor

STS-7 rises from the Cape, its glow reflected on the Florida landscape like the beacon from a lighthouse. Kennedy Space Center, June 18, 1983. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 25" x 40"

Morning Launch
Greg Mort TITLE: "In the Spotlight," watercolor

The Space Shuttle Challenger contrasts brightly against the dark night as the spacecraft waits for her flight into space. Kennedy Space Center, June 17, 1983. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 14" x 23"

In the Spotlight
Greg Mort TITLE: "On Their Way," watercolor

With engines at full power, the shuttle and its crew climb high toward an ever darkening sky. STS-7, Kennedy Space Center, June 18, 1983. (NASA Art Program).Art size: 22" x 29"

On Their Way
Greg Mort TITLE: "Earth Orbit," watercolor

From 150 miles up the Challenger and its crew members enjoy a view of the blue and cloudy world that spawned them. Kennedy Space Center, June 18, 1983, STS-7. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 25" x 40"

Earth Orbit
Greg Mort TITLE: "Eleven Hour Hold," watercolor painting done on location

At T-minus eleven hours the countdown is stopped in a planned hold. Kennedy Space Center, June 17, 1983 - STS-7. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 17" x 23"

Eleven Hour Hold
Greg Mort TITLE: "Earth and Moon," watercolor

A surrealistic view of the close relationship between the Earth and the Moon. Man's first steps on the lunar surface, though 240,000 miles from the Earth, symbolically brings together both planets. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 20" x 31"

Earth and Moon
Greg Mort TITLE: "Wind Tunnel Hybrids," watercolor

Large scale prototypes await further testing or modification in the halls at the Langley Research Center. Flown in the 30 x 60 foot tunnel, they feature working surface control and thrust. The wood and fiberglass models are built to exact specification and tolerances in the work shop at Langley. (NASA Art Program) Art size: 11" x 20"

Wind Tunnel Hybrids
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