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To Boldly Paint What No Man Has Painted Before

Posted by michael on from the acrylic-or-oil-based dept.

David Mazzotta writes "It's not just Sci-Fi authors who have had influence on space technologies. Artist Chesley Bonestell produced beautiful space-art that inspiried people from Sagan to Heinlein."

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