NASA Art on Tour

A traveling exhibit from the space agency's right brain.

  • By Rebecca Maksel
  • AirSpaceMag.com, March 09, 2010
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Servicing Hubble, John Solie, oil on canvas, 53 x 36 inches, 1995

“The painting depicts the historic servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1992. Kathryn Thornton releases a defective solar panel into the heavens as another astronaut performs duties in the space shuttle Endeavor’s cargo bay. The solar array and the wide-field planetary camera were some of the major units serviced during the STS-61 mission.”


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