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UN Building (Night) The UN building night image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
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Modern house (Cloudcroft, New Mexico) An image stored on the Golden Record depicting a group of schoolchildren interacting with a Globe.
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House construction (African) The house construction (African) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
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House (African) The house construction (African) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
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Violin with music score (Cavatina) The violin with music score (Cavatina) image is one of the pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
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Spacesuit Art Project As part of a program to help patients cope with their cancer treatments through art, the Spacesuit Art Project invited over 530 pediatric cancer patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center, family members, and support personnel to paint canvas strips. The hand-painted art pieces were stitched together and incorporated into three spacesuits that were fittingly named HOPE, COURAGE, and UNITY. The COURAGE suit, created solely by pediatric patients, was launched to the station and worn by cancer researcher and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins.
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Cosmic Dancer The sculpture Cosmic Dancer, made by artist Arthur Woods, was sent aboard a Progress rocket to the Russian Mir station on May 22, 1993.
The work, a painted aluminum geometric structure measuring approximately 35 x 35 x 40 centimeters and weighing exactly one kilogram (2.2 lbs), was the first three-dimensional work designed specifically to evolve in space. The purpose of the operation was to explore the properties of a weightless sculpture and the integration of a work of art in a space program that usually included only man.
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Paintings of Ellery Kurtz
Through N.A.S.A.'s Get Away Special (GAS) program an experiment was designed to test organic art materials such as oil-based paints, linen canvas, primers and bonding materials for degradation during space flight. The canister designated G-481 was the 46th such canister flown aboard a Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the Earth 98 times during it's mission duration time of 6 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes and 51 seconds.
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The Moon Museum The Moon Museum is thought to be the first artwork to have traveled to the moon. American sculptor Forrest Myers worked with scientists from Bell Laboratories to produce an edition of tiny ceramic tiles onto which drawings by him and five other artists were inscribed. He reported that he had one of the tiles covertly attached to the Apollo 12 spacecraft and that it was left on the moon along with other personal effects transported by the astronauts.
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Luna 2 Spherical Pennant The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to impact the Moon. Luna 2 carried two spherical “pennants” composed of pentagon-shaped elements engraved with the USSR Coat of Arms and Cyrillic letters translating into “CCCP/USSR September 1959.” An identical pennant is now on display in the Kansas Cosmosphere.
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Swatch of Wright Brothers Flyer 1 Attached to Mars Helicopter NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter carries a small swatch of muslin material from the lower-left wing of the Wright Brothers Flyer 1.
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Perseverance Rover COVID-19 Honorary Healthcare Workers Plaque Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission installed a plate on the left side of the rover chassis, commemorating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and paying tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
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Pioneer Plaque Onboard the Pioneer Space Probe, on a trajectory outside the Solar System, the Pioneer Plaque acts as a memento of where the probe came from, and the humans that made it.
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Clyde Tombaugh Ashes On New Horizons Space Probe The New Horizons spacecraft carries a small container of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes on its inside upper deck. An inscription on it, written by mission Principal Investigator Alan Stern, reads: "Interred herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system's "Third Zone," Adelle and Muron's boy, Patricia's husband, Annette and Alden's father, astronomer, teacher, punster, and friend: Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906-1997)."
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Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground is a song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927, and published by Columbia Records.
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Only Known Photograph of Blind Willie Johnson The only known surviving photograph of Blind Willie Johnson. Holding a guitar, he is seated next to a piano.
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Fallen Astronaut Aluminum sculpture created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was commissioned and placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 at Hadley Rille on August 2, 1971, UTC, next to a plaque listing 14 names of those who died up to that time.
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Children With Globe An image stored on the Golden Record depicting a group of schoolchildren interacting with a Globe.
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Orbital Sunrise The first piece of art ever created by a human in space. Alexei Leonov drew this sketch after exiting his spacecraft (Voskhod 2) for a brief period of time, during which he witnessed the sun rising as his spacecraft circled around the Earth. After Leonov returned to the safety of his spacecraft, he used colored-pencils he brought on-board to preserve the image of what he saw during his spacewalk.
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The Golden Record The Golden Record, onboard the Voyager spacecrafts. Constructed out of gold-plated copper, the record functions similarly to a standard vinyl record. The record contains encoded information containing images and audio that were deemed significant enough to be sent beyond the Solar System.