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Topic: Photo of the week 184 (May 10, 2008)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-10-2008 02:56 AM
   
 Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov examines a painting by Norman Rockwell in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington in September 1974. Leonov was in the US in preparation for the Apollo-Soyuz mission, for which he was the Russian commander. He is also a painter himself, which would explain his special interest in Rockwell's art. There are different titles attached to this particular Rockwell painting, as can be read here. Ed Hengeveld |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 05-10-2008 03:14 AM
I wonder if he was thinking... "Boy I'd like to paint this well!" or something similar in russian of course. |
APG85
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 05-10-2008 05:48 AM
Neat picture but I'm not sure the location is correct. The National Air & Space Museum (as we know it today) didn't open until 1976... |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-10-2008 06:26 AM
I visited an Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. in 1967 on my Senior class trip. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-10-2008 09:00 AM
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Originally posted by ejectr:
I visited an Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. in 1967 on my Senior class trip.
Indeed you did, but not the National Air and Space Museum we associate with that name today. The building on the National Mall was not opened until 1976. Ten years earlier, Public Law 89-509 amended the original National Air Museum's legislation to include the field of space flight (though it wasn't until 1971 that authorization was given to start building the new 'National Air and Space Museum'). |
katabatic
Member Posts: 72
From: Oak Hill, VA, USA
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 05-10-2008 02:50 PM
Before A&S opened, air/space hardware was on display in the Arts and Industries building just up the Mall, next to the Smithsonian 'Castle.' I remember that they used to have some of the big stuff, including an Atlas, outside. Sadly, the Atlas is not a part of the current A&S exhibits. |
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