BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity (in Gallery 211)

DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity (in Gallery 211):

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Description of Pictures: Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity
January 8, 2015 – June 8, 2015
Extra-vehicular activity, or EVA—working outside a spacecraft—changed the nature of human spaceflight. It made possible walking on the Moon, servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, and building the International Space Station. It remains crucial to our ongoing presence in space.
EVA requires a wearable spacecraft—the spacesuit—and specialized tools for astronauts to survive in the hazardous environment of space. Since the first space walks of Aleksei Leonov and Edward White in 1965, more than 200 astronauts and cosmonauts have amassed over 1,000 hours of EVA experience.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of those first two ventures outside the spacecraft, this exhibition presents art, photography, artifacts, and personal accounts that relate the continuing story of EVA.
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of NASA, National Air and Space Society, Omega Watches, and United Technologies Corporation.

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1. SIAIO_150117_013.JPG: The Museum's collection contains more than 2,000 pieces of space art and twice as many spacesuits and other equipment. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalks and the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, we showcase the art and artifacts of spacefaring. While astronauts and their equipment are the most publicly visible part of the space program, thousands of people make EVA possible. The safety and success of astronauts depends on the knowledge, craftsmanship, and ingenuity of experts who make venturing outside the spacecraft possible. This exhibition is dedicated to those who work behind the scenes of astronaut EVAs.
2. SIAIO_150117_016.JPG: Ace the Test Michael Knigin Archival pigment print 1988 This photographic collage uses an image of astronauts Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring as they performed an assembly experiment called ACCESS in the payload bay during the Space Shuttle STS-61B mission. The test's purpose was to see how quickly EVA astronauts became fatigued by assembly projects. Michael Knigin produced this piece for NASA to commemorate the Return to Flight mission of Discovery in 1988. He used elements of the real and surreal to mark the first shuttle flight after the loss of Challenger in 1986
3. SIAIO_150117_036.JPG: Looking Back Charles Jennings Acrylic on canvas 1974 After the Apollo missions ended, the Skylab program kept astronauts much closer to home. Here, Skylab 3 pilot Jack Lousma performs an EVA, with the Moon far away over his shoulder and the Skylab space station and nearby Earth reflected in his visor.
4. SIAIO_150117_051.JPG: Planetary Citizen Angela Manno Batik Undated This is one of a 12-piece series of mixed-media paintings combining batik, the ancient medium of textile design, with color xerography. It reproduces the famous photo of Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless flying the Manned Maneuvering Unit. The quote at the bottom reads, "Each man comes back (to earth) with a feeling he is no longer only an American citizen; he is a planetary citizen." Planetary Citizen is Manno's signature piece.
5. SIAIO_150117_059.JPG: Dale A. Gardner, Space Shuttle Mission 51-A George D. Guzzi Jr. Watercolor on paper 1985 This entry for the Museum's "Looking at Earth" competition and exhibition of 1985 shows Dale Gardner tethered to the exterior of Space Shuttle Discovery. During that mission, Gardner and Joseph Allen donned jet-propelled maneuvering units on spacewalks to recover two malfunctioning satellites.
6. SIAIO_150117_065.JPG: Portable Life Support System Astronauts on the Moon wore this type of Personal Life Support System (PLSS), built by Hamilton Standard, which contained critical elements of their personal spacecraft. It circulated water and air, transmitted communications, and "scrubbed" oxygen of deadly carbon dioxide gas.
7. SIAIO_150117_072.JPG: Alan Bean Acrylic on aircraft board 1983 As an artist and an astronaut, Alan Bean brings a unique perspective to envisioning human spaceflight. In this depiction of his Apollo 12 mission, he shows Pete Conrad removing equipment from the lunar module's stowage bay. Bean wanted the painting to give viewers a sense of the lunar module's size, and how it provided a friendly home away from home during their time on the Moon.
8. SIAIO_150117_084.JPG: Eugene Cernan's Lunar Overshoes These lunar overshoes were were made for and worn by Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission that landed on the Moon on December 10, 1972.
9. SIAIO_150117_092.JPG: Glove Display in "Outside the Spacecraft" The helix glove display in "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity" shows 26 different gloves used by astronauts during EVAs.
10. SIAIO_150117_109.JPG: Lunar Confrontation Robert Shore Oil on Masonite 1970 In this fanciful work, Robert Shore imagined a space-suited Apollo astronaut encountering his not-so-distant inspiration: Jules Verne (identified by the French flag in his hand).
11. SIAIO_150117_115.JPG: Moon Walker Mitchell Jamieson Ink on rice paper Undated, probably 1969-70 Mitchell Jamieson was chosen as the first official artist for NASA's Project Mercury. Over the course of the space program, his work changed from enthusiastic in tone to darker images like this that reflected the conflict he felt over U.S. military actions in Asia. He feared that NASA's hopeful mission would be overtaken by military goals.
12. SIAIO_150117_122.JPG: The EVA of Astronaut James Irwin Pierre Mion Acrylic on canvas 1971 Working alongside Norman Rockwell, Pierre Mion created some impressive space art. Here, he depicted Apollo 15 lunar module pilot James Irwin monitoring the spacewalk of command module pilot Alfred Worden, who is reflected in Irwin's visor retrieving film. A nearly full Moon in the background reminds the viewer of where the astronauts have just been.
13. SIAIO_150117_136.JPG: Cernan's Apollo 17 Helmet Gene Cernan's helmet from his A7-LB spacesuit on Apollo 17.
14. SIAIO_150117_149.JPG: Moon Scene, Apollo 15 Tom O'Hara Gouache on paper Undated This painting highlights the major achievement of Apollo 15: David Scott and James Irwin putting their extensive training as lunar geologists into practice.
15. SIAIO_150117_154.JPG: Man's First Step on the Moon Norman Rockwell Oil on canvas 1966 Norman Rockwell's images of wholesome, small-town America were widely popular during and after World War II. In 1966 Look magazine commissioned Rockwell to paint several works marking the imminent landing of humans on the Moon. Rockwell recruited experienced space artist Pierre Mion to help him. Mion worked on the painting's color, drew the antennae atop the module, repainted the stars, and painted the spacecraft interior as seen through the windows. Because NASA regularly changed details about the lunar module's appearance, this painting does
16. SIAIO_150117_180.JPG: Eugene Cernan's Cover Layer This cover layer was used for training prior to Gemini IX-A. The bottom half was covered with Chromel-R, a high chromium stainless steel woven fabric, to protect him from the gas exhaust of his Astronaut Maneuvering Unit.
17. SIAIO_150117_185.JPG: The First Spacewalk: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became famous on March 18, 1965, when he opened the airlock hatch of his Voskhod 2 spacecraft while in Earth orbit. He remained outside for just over 12 minutes -- the world's first walk in space. As Leonov left the spacecraft, his spacesuit ballooned in the vacuum of space. He had to vent some air from the suit to fit back through the airlock, a risky procedure. As soon as this and other problems arose, television and radio broadcasts of the event ended, which left most on Earth in the dark about Leonov's situation. The world would not learn until much later about the malfunctions that nearly killed him and mission commander Pavel Belyayev.
18. SIAIO_150117_194.JPG: Delineating the Constellations Clayton Pond Serigraph on paper 1980-81 This fanciful pop art-style print depicts a spacewalking astronaut outside the Space Shuttle's open payload bay doors. Clad in a Gemini-type spacesuit and tethered to the shuttle by umbilical cords, the astronaut appears to be linking stars to create familiar constellations.
19. SIAIO_150117_205.JPG: Life Support Umbilical This cord connected Ed White to Gemini IV during his spacewalk. It contains a rubber oxygen hose, four electrical connectors, and a communications line. Chest Pack Attached to Ed White during his Gemini IV EVA, this module served as the receptacle for the life-support connections provided through the umbilical tether.
20. SIAIO_150117_215.JPG: Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit Ed White used this devise to move while outside his spacecraft for Gemini IV.
21. SIAIO_150117_221.JPG: Zeiss Contarex Camera and Lens This 35mm camera and lens were attached to the top of Ed White's maneuvering unit during his spacewalk for Gemini IV.
22. SIAIO_150117_230.JPG: Ed White's GH-4-C Helmet Ed White's Spacesuit Gloves
23. SIAIO_150117_240.JPG: Leonov's Military Uniform Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov's military uniform
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