Nasa artist and his space suit art.
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Space Artist Draws from Experience
Ron Woods is one of the few people to effectively capture spacesuits in their native habitats.
Designed to keep humans alive in the void of orbit and on the moon, the rugged garments nevertheless spend almost their entire lives in pristine rooms on Earth.
It is there that Woods finds them and brings their stories to life.
“To me, there’s nothing more artistic than a spacesuit,” Woods said. “They’re just real interesting pieces of hardware to me and I just started painting them.”
The details can be as complex as a wrist joint on an Apollo glove, or as simple as a layer of gold-tinted capton tape over an air gauge on a breathing apparatus.
The hardest part?
“Getting the lighting (effects),” Woods said. Pointing to a painting of Jack Lousma making a spacewalk on the Skylab space station, Woods said it was important to give the spacesuit a glow because of the sunlight reflecting off the station.
As the overseer of the flight crew equipment preparation at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Woods is never far from his subjects. He and his team pack up all the gear each shuttle carries in the crew cabin for a mission.
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