Illustrator and comic book artist Philip Bond has posted a marvelous set of portraits of women astronauts in his Flickr Gallery.

“Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times during
her three day spaceflight in Vostok 6 in 1963. First woman in space!”

 
“Jan Davis made her first of three spaceflights on Shuttle Endeavour’s STS-47
mission alongside Mae Jemison and, contrary to NASA policy, her husband
Mark Lee. Twentieth woman in space!”

My earlier post here about the art exhibition Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration at UC Riverside remains inaccessible in the database of the old Space-for-All blog. Rather than try to reproduce all that, I’ll point readers to the long post I made for the NewSpace Watch blog: NewSpace inspires art exhibition – NSW – Jan.11.13.

Here is a review of the exhibition:  “Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration” at the UCR ArtsBlock – Highlander – Jan.22.13.

An essay tribute to Chesley Bonestell and other artists whose works have highlighted the publications and headquarters of the British Interplanetary Society in London: From the BIS Archives: Farscapes of the Imagination – the Pioneer Artists – BIS.

Keith Cooper writes about artists like Chris Foss who create cover art and illustrations for sci-fi and non-fiction space books that have a far bigger and more lasting impact than the books themselves: Painting the Future – Interstellarindex.

He notes that noted artists Adrian Mann, Jon Lomberg, and David A. Hardy work with the Interstellarindex project.