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Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space travel

  • Written by Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College
Chesley Bonestell's detailed drawings of space stations in Collier's inspired millions of readers. James Vaughan/flickr, CC BY-NC

In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space travel started in the imagination of the artist.”

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