NASA, Visions of Space, Capturing the History of NASA
KERROD Robin, Prion, Multimedia Books, London, 1990
This is a record of the NASA Art Programme, founded in 1962 to recognizethe role of the artist in visualizing the, then, unattainableobjectives of space technology. It offered artists the chanceto participate in space exploration in a unique way. Nowadays, the NASAarchives contain hundreds of paintings ranging from those technically orientedto some which are completely abstract. This volume reproduces a selectionof 120, from this store, depicting contributions spread over nearly threedecades of NASA space involvement.
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