Excellent original painting of Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt's lunar boots at the Smithsonian's Paul E. Garber Facility, with Charles Conrad's A7L suit hanging in the background, accomplished in watercolor on an off-white 9 x 6.5 sheet by NASA suit technician-turned-artist Ron Woods. Titled, signed, and dated in the lower left corner in ink, "Jack's Boots, Ron Woods, 2002," and signed and inscribed on the reverse in silver ink, "Jacks Boots @ the Garber, Ron Woods 2010, Thanks Jeff for all the support, R.W." Archivally triple-matted and framed under museum glass to an overall size of 19 x 16.5. In 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, 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 back-up landing sites.
