NASA administrator James Webb created the
NASA Art Program in 1962, at the height of the space craze, and he enlisted 350 artists to participate. Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Jamie Wyeth and Annie Liebovitz were among those who signed on.
Jamie Wyeth’s 1964 watercolor Gemini Launch Pad includes a humble bicycle, the means by which technicians traveled back and forth from the launch pad to the concrete-reinforced blockhouse where they worked.
Andy Warhol's ‘Moonwalk 1’ shows astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon has become an icon of popular culture.
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