“ The nearest thing to an artist - in - residence from outer blank space . ” That ’s how Isaac Asimov once describedRobert T. McCall , the renowned illustrator , conceptual artist , space - scene puma , official NASA artist , and Almighty of fabled movie post horse include 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
The third piece of our serial featuring the most famousaerospace artists , beginning with Attila Héjja and Paul Fjeld , is dedicated to plausibly the illustrious blank artist : Bob McCall . His employment can be found on U.S. postage impression NASA mission patch . He make concept art for several NASA programs and illustrations for magazines limn man ’s conquest in space . His mural can be found on the walls of the National Air and Space Museum , the National Gallery of Art , The Pentagon , Epcot , and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center .
But , in the unlikely instance you missed the work of his prolific career , there ’s one artwork you ’ve definitely take care : McCall paint the iconic movie post horse for Stanley Kubrick ’s 1968 science fiction classic , 2001 : A Space Odyssey . He passed away five eld ago , on Feb. 26 , 2010 at the age of 90 .
Moon base
Source : LIFE , Sept 28 , 1959
Docking Port Space City (Space Station 2000), circa 1960s.
Source : Heritage auction bridge
America’s hottest jet
origin : Popular Science , May 1962
The hottest ship in the world
generator : Popular Science , July 1962
Illustration of the two Soviet capsules – Vostok 3 and 4 – in orbit as sun rises over the Earth
Source : LIFE , Aug 24 , 1962
Gemini 4, c1966.
The XB-70 tragedy
Source : LIFE , Nov 11 , 1966
Apollo 8 Coming Home, 1969.
reservoir : mccallstudios.com
Promotional paintings for 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM, 1968).
Movie posters
Robert McCall holds a sheet of postage stamps commemorating the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.
Source : NASA
Blast Off, 1973.
Lunar Landing, 1973.
Handshake in Space, 1974. This painting depicts the historic docking of American and Soviet spacecraft during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of July 1975.
Earth Orbit 98, 1977
Building a Space Station, c1979.
Shuttles, Stations, and Spacewalkers, 1979. On display in the auditorium at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Launch of STS-7, 1983. The first American mission to have a female astronaut, the seventh space shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Space Shuttle, 1995.
1997: NASA history panorama that hangs in the Virginia Air and Space Center.
author : NASA Langley Research Center
Robert McCall, working on his painting titled Opening the Space Frontier, The Next Giant Step
Opening the Space Frontier, The Next Giant Step—on display at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Aeronautics Icons, a mural at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, showcases a host of experimental aircraft.
Spaceflight
Take Off
Six of the mission patches designed by McCall (first row: Apollo 17, ASTP, STS-71, second row: STS-1, STS-3, STS-41B)
seed : NASA
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