Attractive limited edition color 16.5 x 11.75 lithograph of a Ron Woods watercolor painting entitled ‘Friendship 7,’ which depicts Mercury-Atlas 6 astronaut John Glenn in his flight and his space suit, numbered 1/15, signed below in pencil by the artist. In very fine condition.
During the Apollo program, Ron Woods worked for ILC as a suit technician performing suit maintenance, interface testing with the Command Module, Lunar Module, and Lunar Rover vehicles, and insertion of astronauts in Command and Lunar modules for training. He suited crewmembers for Apollo 8, 11, and 15, all Skylab missions, and Apollo-Soyuz. He also supported the first two Space Shuttle missions as a suit technician at KSC and three additional missions at primary and backup landing sites.
