Check out the striking oil painting of Chris Hadfield by Feohria at deviantART.
Chris Hadfield is currently on the International Space Station. He participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Sunday: I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently orbiting planet Earth. : IAmA.
He frequently posts images of the earth’s surface on his Twitter page like like this one of “Dragon skin”.
Here’s another review of the exhibition Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration in Southern California: Space As A Creative Muse – Co.Design – Feb.12.13.
Alan Boyle reports that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is taking marvelous pictures of earth from the ISS and posting them online : Astronaut’s artistry hits warp speed – PhotoBlog
See the Col. Chris Hadfield Facebook page and Chris Hadfield (Cmdr_Hadfield) on Twitter for his latest shots. For example, Twitter / Cmdr_Hadfield:
Where the Mississippi enters the Gulf of Mexico. The soil of America’s heartland forming a vast, deep delta. pic.twitter.com/Dctu8ipH
And Hadfield is also a musician who will soon premier a new song in space with collaborator Ed Robertson: ‘Is Somebody Singing’: Ed Robertson on why he wanted to work with Chris Hadfield – CBC Music
On Feb. 8, astronaut Chris Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson will premiere “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing).” It’s a unique collaboration for a number of reasons, but first and foremost because Hadfield will be floating somewhere in outer space aboard the International Space Station, while Robertson will be joined by a youth choir in the CBC Toronto studios. It’s an out-of-this-world collaboration, to say the least.
For the weeks leading up to the premiere, Robertson will be updating us with interesting aspects about the project, something he says has been in the works for a long time.
In case you missed it, the AIAA Houston Section released the Horizons Newsletter issue for Nov/Dec 2012 (pdf, 49MB) with the third installment of their planned full reproduction of all eight issues of Colliers magazine published between March 1952 and April 1954 with articles on space. The writers included Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley and other space notables of the time. The wonderful illustrations were created by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep.
The covers of the space issues:
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In addition to the Horizons team, the project includes Scott Lowther.
The third issue is described as follows:
October 25, 1952: More About Man on the Moon
The Exploration, pp. 38-40, 44-48, Dr. Fred Whipple & Dr. Wernher von Braun
Inside the Lunar Base, pg. 46, Willy Ley
A sample of the art:
The two Horizons issues with the first two installments of the Colliers series can be found here.
Kristian von Bengston of Copenhagen Suborbitals posts his hardware design sketchbooks, which have a nice esthetic quality to them in addition to their technical interest: Sketch Books by Kristian von Bengtson.