Artwork description:

Title - STS-72 NASA, Space Shuttle, Remastered 2022.
Additional information - Photographer John Angerson was granted unprecedented access to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA, to document the final months of a yearlong intensive training program preparing for NASA (STS-72) in January 1996. After revisiting the original negatives in 2022 without the pressures of the original deadline. Bringing them together with hundreds of images he uncovered at the US National Archives that were made in Earth’s orbit and captured by the original STS-72 crew. Since the first manned space mission, some of the most important items that the astronauts have brought back from space have been their photographs, which have over the years permanently changed the way we think, feel and see our place in the universe.

Chromogenic print, lustre finish. Signed verso. Print size: 16x12 inches (40.64cm x 30.48cm). With a signed Certificate of Authentication.

Materials used:

Chromogenic photo print - Fuji Crystal Archive on lustre paper

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