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Topic: Photo of the week 327 (February 5, 2011)
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heng44
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posted 02-04-2011 02:42 PM
   
 Astronaut John Young poses below his portrait, which is part of the mural that artist Robert McCall painted at the Johnson Space Center in 1979. Ed Hengeveld |
KSCartist
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From: Titusville, FL USA
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posted 02-04-2011 06:36 PM
God I wish I could paint like that. Soon Ed, soon. |
mjanovec
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posted 02-04-2011 08:39 PM
It looks like he also painted Judy Resnik into the background of the mural. |
Henry Heatherbank
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From: Adelaide, South Australia
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posted 02-04-2011 09:10 PM
Is that the unofficial Gemini 3/Molly Brown decal on his right shoulder? I didn't think that decal (created well after the event) was recognised by the crew or endorsed by NASA as an official crew patch? |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-04-2011 09:11 PM
The Molly Brown patch was never adopted by NASA as an official mission insignia but Young had the design made as a patch when he was training for Apollo and later wore it on his flightsuits, as in this photo. |
Rob Joyner
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From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 02-04-2011 09:53 PM
Captain Action in the flesh! |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
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From: Toms River, NJ
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posted 02-04-2011 10:05 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mjanovec:
It looks like he also painted Judy Resnik into the background of the mural.
It's a gotcha: He asked Young to pose but painted Resnik instead.  |
heng44
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From: Netherlands
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posted 02-05-2011 02:55 AM
Here are some more pictures of a great artist at work. After all, the man is my role model. And yes, that is Al Bean assisting him... 
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heng44
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posted 02-05-2011 02:56 AM
 
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Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
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posted 02-05-2011 03:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by mjanovec:
It looks like he also painted Judy Resnik into the background of the mural.
That's correct, as Ed points out in the post here above. Which patch did he paint on Resnik's space suit?Did he also paint the large mural at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC? |
KSCartist
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From: Titusville, FL USA
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posted 02-05-2011 06:18 AM
The patch on Judy's suit is her Astronaut Class of 1978 patch.Yes, McCall did paint "A Cosmic View" at the Air and Space Museum in D.C. The man was a true artistic genius. |
alanh_7
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From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
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posted 02-05-2011 07:34 AM
Great shots Ed. What an amazing artist.A friend of mine is in one of Robert McCall's murals "Reaching For the Stars" showing the suiting up and mission of of STS-1 crew. He told me that McCall was such a stickler for detail that he came to the Kennedy Space Center after the flight and sketched and photographed the people involved in various poses carrying out their assigned duties so he could later paint with complete accuracy. It seems no detail was too small. |
SkyMan1958
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posted 02-09-2011 03:11 PM
Interesting. If the mural was created in 1979 and the picture of Young has the STS-1 patch on his suit (given that it flew in 1981), does anyone have any idea how long before a flight NASA will have a patch design made up? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 02-09-2011 03:22 PM
Young approached McCall to design the STS-1 patch just as the artist had begun painting the mural. "I was painting that mural in Building 2," described McCall to collectSPACE of Opening the Space Frontier - The Next Giant Step, a 71-foot long by 16-foot high mural that features the progression from Mercury to Space Shuttle, including the STS-1 commander as the central figure. "It was in the early days of working on it, [that] I was asked by John Young to design the STS-1 mission emblem and eagerly consented to do that." |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
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From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-11-2011 05:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by SkyMan1958:
Interesting. If the mural was created in 1979 and the picture of Young has the STS-1 patch on his suit (given that it flew in 1981), does anyone have any idea how long before a flight NASA will have a patch design made up?
When Challenger happened, three crews had patches approved: 61E, 61F and 61G. 61H (sked for June) had a crew portrait (sans payload specialists), as did 62A (sked for July), but no patches approved. Both the latter crews had been announced for about a year before their "final" scheduled launch dates, but I'm unsure as to how far along their patches were. As recounted elsewhere, Tim (KSCartist) had submitted designs for 62A. |
heng44
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posted 02-12-2011 02:19 AM
The STS-1 patch was released on March 10, 1979. At that time the launch was scheduled for November 9, 1979. |
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