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use of space exploration or space-access technology for primarily artistic purposes

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Who are the space artists behind these images of the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar?

According to this interesting item, the artist of this auction-found poster is Robert McCall. But who are the space artists who produced these two images of the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar?
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Who is the artist of this image appearing in an article about a Russian space laser?

According to the Tech Times article Russia Constructing Powerful 'Space Laser' To Remove Some 500,000 Junk Items Orbiting The Earth: Russia is still making its mark in space and it is doing so by tak …
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What might this "NS" mean in this speculation about this Mars rover's future prospects?

The Reddit xkcd 695: apparently CERN scientists couldn't handle the sad ending contains the following image. In the 2nd to last panel of the bottom added-on row, the text looks like it says Sorry …
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What technical challenges would be playing this LP in (actual) space?

In the NYTimes article Third Man Records Sends a Vinyl Record Into Space an LP record player was designed and built to be flown in a balloon. It seems to have achieved only about 28.5 km which is defi …
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Expedition 53 group portrait - what's up with the cool shirts?

The image is from NASA Media Advisory M17-124 Georgia Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station but there is no mention of the cool shirts. below: The six Expedition 53 crew members …
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What Soviet-era space-related film is this Nick Stevens tweet referring to?

@antzi's post in chat lead me to the Nick Stevens' Twitter account in which I found the following 9-Apr-2018 Tweet: Soviet film, dramatized version of #Korolev and #Gagarin with the ADU-1000 Pluto …
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Who is the NASA Space artist of this circa 1978 satellite montage? Does a key listing each i...

The Ars Technica article As mega-constellations loom, US seeks to manage space debris problem uses this beautiful drawing of current and future spacecraft from a circa 1978 perspective. It's been used …
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How does this spinach-growing Mars lander design work?

@geoffc left a link in Chat to the extensive article in Nasa Spaceflight The Evolution of the Big Falcon Rocket. On the second page there is a bit of Mars vs Musk history: Musk’s ambitions of doing o …
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Was there once a semi-serious space-art project planning to use solar reflectors to put a sp...

Reading the question What are the effects of orbital reflectors and advertising on scientific observation and orbital debris? I am reminded of a story I read a while ago about an even in the past, per …
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Could folks in space see giant projections of art on mountains like this one? Was this one s...

Could folks in space, either space station astronauts in LEO or even future space tourists in suborbital arcs be able to see large projections like this on the sides of mountains? Did ISS astronauts h …
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How did Scott Horowitz "hoist" the Mars Society's flag up STS-105's "mast"?

The medium.com's Retired NASA Astronaut Joins Crew That’s Building 21st Century Transportation Network says: At NASA, (Scott J. Horowitz) was responsible for selecting SpaceX — the company run by Elo …
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Has there ever been musical events or performances associated with deep-space spacecraft or ...

We've had several questions related to music being played (live, or recorded) in space: Music played in space (6 answers) How did Sergei Krikalev get (or build) the drum he is shown playing here? (n …
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Which "Rockwell van" ran incredibly rough for the first two minutes? (call to the radio prog...

A caller to the long-running NPR radio talk show Car Talk described a problem with their Rockwell van. While it started fine, it ran "incredibly rough" for the first two minutes. Is it possible to ide …
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Is this video made from one coherent set of images or a mixture of several missions or even ...

NOTE: Looking at this 2+ years later, I realize now that a careful observer can likely answer this one fairly quickly. I'll do it myself eventually, but someone else is welcome to first. In this vi …
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Who does these mesmerizing simulations of the phases of the Moon? And how?

It's lunar new year here and people will be lighting fire crackers and launching bottle rockets off and on until dawn, so I thought I would read up on it. EarthSky.org's Moon Phases update Your new mo …
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