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Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space travel

  • Written by Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College
Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space travelChesley Bonestell's detailed drawings of space stations in Collier's inspired millions of readers. James Vaughan/flickr, CC BY-NC

In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space travel started in the imagination of the artist.”

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