Sky Lab
Artist: Peter Hurd, 1973
Media: Watercolor on paper
Description: Peter Hurd participated in the early days of the NASA Art Program, documenting the last Mercury flight.
He returned ten years later to record the launch of Skylab, a rocket modified to allow astronauts to live and work in orbit. The three separate crews of Skylab astronauts arrived via Apollo command modules.
Image Credit: Peter Hurd
All rights reserved
Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Sky Lab
Artist: Peter Hurd, 1973
Media: Watercolor on paper
Description: Peter Hurd participated in the early days of the NASA Art Program, documenting the last Mercury flight.
He returned ten years later to record the launch of Skylab, a rocket modified to allow astronauts to live and work in orbit. The three separate crews of Skylab astronauts arrived via Apollo command modules.
Image Credit: Peter Hurd
All rights reserved
Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution