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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center release
Lancaster Museum Displays NASA Armstrong Artwork 'Probing the Sky'

The Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California, will exhibit art from the collection of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center from August 13 through October 30.

Part of the museum's "Made in America" exhibition, "NASA Flight Research: Probing the Sky" commemorates Armstrong's 70th anniversary with over 50 pieces of visual art chronicling the story of NASA's pioneering flight research and groundbreaking space technology development.

The first-ever public display of Robert Schaar's entire "Walk of Honor" series of NACA and NASA test pilot portraits forms the exhibit's centerpiece. The 17-painting series depicts test pilots featured in Lancaster's Aerospace Walk of Honor, which is located alongside The Museum of Art and History. Famed flight research pilots such as Neil Armstrong, Scott Crossfield, John Manke and Donald Mallick are included in the collection.

"Probing the Sky" also will include late aerospace artist Robert T. McCall's "The Apollo Story" stone lithograph series and works by other prominent aerospace artists.

Cam Martin, director of Armstrong's fine arts program, said the exhibit would inspire a wide variety of audiences by showing NASA's accomplishments through the eyes of artists.

"The reason to be excited about NASA's fine arts effort is that it communicates powerfully across generations, across cultures and across languages," Martin said. "Everyone who sees it comes away with something."

Martin will present a narrated tour of the exhibit's NASA art September 18 at 2 p.m.

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The Museum of Art and History's "Made in America" exhibition also includes astronaut Karen Nyberg's Star Quilt.
When astronaut Karen Nyberg launched for her mission aboard the International Space Station, she brought with her some unusual items, including: a spool of ivory thread, five needles, and three "fat quarters" of fabric. During the five month stint that she spent living aboard the Space Station as a flight engineer, Nyberg became the first person to quilt while in orbit.

As one might imagine, the astronaut and artist ran into some unique difficulties while striving to complete her zero-gravity project, including figuring out how to best store her sewing supplies (Velcro and Ziploc bags kept needles and strips of fabric from floating away) and how to cut floating fabric. Of the latter, Nyberg states, "Imagine if you take a piece of fabric and hold it out in front of you. Now, take your scissors and try to cut it and that is exactly what it is like. Because you can't lie it down on the floor, and you can't use a rotary cutter, you just have to cut." Despite these difficulties, Nyberg successfully completed a nine-by-nine inch, red, white and blue quilt square.

Upon returning to Earth, Nyberg expanded upon her "Astronomical Quilt," calling for quilters from all over the world to submit star themed fabric blocks to be included in the final product. Nyberg received over 2,200 submissions, which were sewn together to create 28 quilt panels, with the original star at the center. "With a project like this, what I think is really cool, is that you can take somebody from every part of this world and find something that you have in common with them. And we really do have something in common with people from everywhere," Nyberg said.

Born in Vining, Minnesota, Karen Nyberg graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Dakota where she received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. She then earned a Doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, for her work researching human thermoregulation and metabolic testing at the Austin Bioheat Transfer Laboratory, with special focus on thermo neutrality in space suits. Nyberg is currently an American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut.

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