![]() To start painting, she'd scored out some water from a drink bag which would float around as a tiny ball. Shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott brought a set of watercolors when she went to space. A sculpture called "Cosmic Dancer," sent to the Russian station Mir in the early 1990s, danced in weightlessness. ROBERT PEARLMAN: He carried with him some colored pencils, and he sketched the horizon and the different colors that he saw during a sunrise and sunset as he circled the Earth.īYRNE: And others soon followed. Robert Pearlman, founder of, traces the first piece of orbital art to Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on a 1965 mission. SHOFFNER: We're going to show some of the selected art entries and poetry on the space station during our flight.īYRNE: The contest is the latest in a long history of art in space. And some of the art created by young students is coming along, too. He purchased a seat on a SpaceX capsule from Houston-based company Axiom Space, and he'll join former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two Saudi Arabian astronauts. But now at age 67, Shoffner will become an astronaut. He went on to become an investor, pilot and racecar driver. It's just tremendous.īYRNE: After that flight, Shoffner, as an 8-year-old, helped start a young astronauts club. ![]() JOHN SHOFFNER: What would it be like when we live in space? In your mind as a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old today, what does that look like to you?īYRNE: Shoffner remembers his inspiration - a painting he made almost six decades ago of Gemini's Ed White, the first American to conduct a spacewalk.ĮD WHITE: I feel like a million dollars. As WMFE's Brendan Byrne reports, there's a long history of art and space.īRENDAN BYRNE, BYLINE: When John Shoffner found out he was going to space, he wanted part of his mission to focus on children, asking them specifically a simple question. Four astronauts will spend about a week at the Orbiting Lab conducting experiments, talking with students back here on Earth and focusing on art. A private mission to the International Space Station is set to take flight this weekend.
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