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Topic: Preserving MOL Art for Exhibition (Kickstarter)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 05-30-2016 12:20 PM From cS member John Charles: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]I have [URL=http://kck.st/1WtP0da]started a Kickstarter campaign[/URL] to offset the costs of framing the 1960s art depicting life aboard the top-secret Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). The campaign ends June 29. <center><iframe frameborder="0" height="420" scrolling="no" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/462337982/preserving-mol-art-for-public-exhibition/widget/card.html?v=2" width="220"></iframe></center> The art consists of nearly three dozen acrylic paintings by Neil Jacobe for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co., the prime contractor for MOL. I bought them from the estate of a McDonnell Douglas retiree a few years ago and have shown them locally twice so far. MOL was a joint Air Force-National Reconnaissance Office program for manned spy satellite during the Cold War, eventually displaced by unmanned spy satellites that could do the same task faster and cheaper. A good summary of the program (but not the paintings) was [URL=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/astrospies.html]done on NOVA[/URL] on PBS about eight years ago. Once framed, the art will be available for more public displays without so much risk to the 50-year-old paintings themselves. In addition to the paintings, I will always offer to give my one-hour MOL lecture (that's my favorite part). Next tentative public display date is in the Seabrook (Texas) Library possibly as early as August. Of course, Kathy and I won't profit from the art — just trying not to go any further into debt over it than we already are.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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