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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

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Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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