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“Space Art - “Columbia Launch Fantasy,” Mixed media painting by artist Andreas Nottebohm is his interpretation of the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, April 12, 1981, Kennedy Space Center.

(NASA Art Program)”

 

Above per the verso caption of a numbered version.

 

x.com/PoliticsAndEd/status/1579206130659909632

Credit: Politics & Education/X

 

cranchedfornow.blogspot.com/2008/01/art-from-space-world-...

 

Specifically...possibly a variant:

 

blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9kpjg...

Both above credit: "Cranched For Now" website

 

 

The artist’s website, which no longer seems to be maintained/updated:

 

andreasnottebohm.net/home/

Credit: Andreas Nottebohm’s website

 

Most disappointingly, the NASA tab yields this:

 

andreasnottebohm.net/nasa-2/

 

Also:

 

www.andrewweissgallery.com/collections/andreas-nottebohm?...

Credit: “Andrew Weiss Gallery” website

 

Interesting, from 2003:

 

"San Rafael artist Andreas Nottebohm's "Columbia Launch Fantasy," painted in 1981, is the first work visitors encounter in the art gallery at the Kennedy Space Center. The work was created as part of NASA's Copernica project, in which artists were commissioned by the space agency to create works focusing on aspects of the space program. Nottebohm also created a work about the first night launch of Columbia and others based on research at Ames Research Center and Voyager 2's trip to Neptune. He also designed NASA's 25th anniversary poster."

 

At/From:

 

www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/the-art-of-columbia-...

Credit: SFGATE website

 

"Copernica project" = NASA Art Program??? Whatever it is, it's a first-heard for me. And...25th anniversary "poster". Hmmm. Is it the following??? I'm dubious:

 

static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/d/dd/NASA_25_%...

Credit: Fandom/Logopedia website

 

I'm dubious.

 

Lastly:

 

www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/n...

 

Specifically:

 

www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4407-etuv4.pdf...

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