Beautiful original artwork by official NASA artist Chris Calle, mixed media on a 15.75 x 21.75 sheet of acrylic paper, depicting astronaut Bruce McCandless performing history's first untethered spacewalk during the STS-41-B mission, with the background composed of planets and Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, signed below in black ink by Calle, and countersigned by noted Canadian politician and pioneer astronaut Marc Garneau, who adds "First Canadian in Space, STS-41G, STS-77, STS-97." On the left side, Garneau has handwritten the poem 'High Flight' by John Magee, which reads, in part: "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth / And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; / Sunwards I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth / Of sun-split clouds-and done a thousand things / You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung / High in the sunlit silence." Attractively cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 26 x 31.75. In very fine condition. A delightful marriage of the arts and space, a subject long the inspiration for humanity's greatest creators and storytellers.
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