Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch, 3 October 1985.

Another oldie from my draft folder. I’d like to do a mass deletion of 99% of my unposted drafts.

Artworks by Lucio Perinotto  

1936-1945 | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

1953-1959 | North American F-100 Super Sabre

1936-1942 | Latécoère Laté 298

1941-1945 | Hawker Typhoon

1934-1936 | Caudron C.460 Racer

1938-1948 | Supermarine Spitfire

1936-1945 | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

book cover. 2017

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Butterfy, 1972

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong loads rocks into the lunar module, as painted by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean in 1985.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

— Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, 21 January 1980

N1 Rocket - Mac Rebisz

Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 : Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars, including the telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects seen in this sharp image. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, buried behind the dusty expanse. This alluring view imaged with a backyard telescope and broadband filters spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251. via NASA

JOHN BERKEY Unknown Casein/Acrylic

Rendezvous of Apollo command and lunar modules over the Moon, illustrated by Robert McCall.