John Berkey's NASA Space Art

(under construction)

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Cape Canaveral 1964

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A very early 1960's Berkey illustration called
"NASA Men"

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Another early 1960's Berkey called "Space Equipment Repair":

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Man Lands on the Moon in 1969!

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ABOVE:  Me holding John Berkey's 1969 poster tribute to the Moon Landing!

The smaller silver foil print:

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The prelim of this painting:

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BELOW:  Me and my sister watching it happen live in 1969 -- what an awesome event!!!
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July 12, 1975
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John Berkey's Space Shuttle Art

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...two of Berkey's shuttle prelims...
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...and in 1986 when the Space Shuttle blew up Berkey did this series of 5 paintings for DISCOVER magazine (only the middle one is usually reprinted, the first 2 and the last 2 of the sequence are never shown)... 

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The Space Shuttle appeared in this 1980 Berkey book cover:

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BELOW:  Berkey's space telescope illustration in the Dec. 1985 LIFE Magazine:

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Space art for DISCOVER Magazine...

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