"Apex" 30' x 20" oil/paper/panel 2013
“Apex” 20” x 30” oil/paper/panel 2013
What the well-dressed space explorer was wearing in 1960: a suit of rubber and aluminized nylon, topped by a fiberglass helmet with an acrylic visor. The spacesuits were tested during training in conditions that ranged from weightlessness to underwater submersion.
The initial Mercury flights took off in the early 1960s, though some of those astronauts were active in later flights. Alan Shepard was the first man to fly in space. John Glenn, one of the most famous of the original spacemen, became a United States senator from Ohio. He was the first American to orbit the earth. Of the original seven, only John Glenn and Scott Carpenter survive today.
Dream Apartments
Author, Paco Asensio
Loft Productions 1999
What the well-dressed space explorer was wearing in 1960: a suit of rubber and aluminized nylon, topped by a fiberglass helmet with an acrylic visor. The spacesuits were tested during training in conditions that ranged from weightlessness to underwater submersion.
The initial Mercury flights took off in the early 1960s, though some of those astronauts were active in later flights. Alan Shepard was the first man to fly in space. John Glenn, one of the most famous of the original spacemen, became a United States senator from Ohio. He was the first American to orbit the earth. Of the original seven, only John Glenn and Scott Carpenter survive today.
Dream Apartments
Author, Paco Asensio
Loft Productions 1999
