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Visitation
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Visitation
(24" x 30", oil on canvas, 1981; private collection)
The end of all exploring is to return home with insights gained from our travels. Here golden beings of light descend from a pyramid-like structure that has appeared over a quiet harbor. To Robert McCall, the image represents a benevolent race that has come to live among us. "Maybe in the future we will be living on Earth with new inhabitants among us," says McCall, "intelligent beings who have discovered us and chosen to live among us peacefully."
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Fully Developed Concept for Air and Space Museum (detail)
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Space Wheel
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Space Wheel (detail)
A Space City concept, perhaps a century from now. In the foreground is a segment of the rim of the giant rotating wheel; in the background above is a similar city. The centrifugal force caused the rim, where most of the city's activities take place. As one moves toward the hub these forces decrease until zero gravity, weightless condition prevails at the center.
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Space Wheel (detail)
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Space Wheel (detail of a detail)
Cutaway of the spoke of the space wheel, showing control rooms, elevator core connecting the rime and the hub, and astronauts at Level 4 preparing to exit through a lock for extra-vehicular activity.
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Floating City over the Arizona Desert
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Floating City over the Arizona Desert
In 1971 McCall Began painting a series of what he calls "floating cities," gravity free cities capable of moving from place to place. "my thrust was to paint an inviting scene, a believable scene that would intrigue the viewer and cause him to wonder about some future possibilities of life on Earth."
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Our Magnificent Moon (detail)
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Edward H. White (detail)
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Edward H. White (detail)
A painting commemorating Edward H. White II, who, in 1965, became the first American to perform an extravehicular activity (EVA) or "space walk." This portrait in space became a memorial painting after White died in the 1967 ground fire that killed him and astronauts Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee while they were testing their Apollo spacecraft.
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The Hurry Home Burn (detail)
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The Hurry Home Burn (detail)
The return phase of the Apollo 8 mission - the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon - piloted by astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders.
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Only the Beginning
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Rendezvous
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Rendezvous
A rendezvous between an Apollo command module and the ascent stage of a lunar lander for the return trip of the astronauts to Earth after a successful Moon mission.
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Apollo 13 Explosion (large detail)
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Apollo 13 Explosion (large detail)
En route to the Moon, a fuel cell on the Apollo 13 service module exploded, severely damaging the craft and aborting the mission's landing. Working with flashlights to conserve the little remaining energy of the Apollo's power system, astronauts Lovell, Swigart, and Haise were able to perform the crucial tasks that would enable them to bring the damaged spacecraft safely back to Earth.
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Apollo Astronaut Real Time Sketch
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Apollo Astronaut Real Time Sketch
Astronaut Dave Scott dropping a feather and a hammer on the Moon, dramatically showing that in the Moon's vacuum they both land at the same time.
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On the Spot Sketch of Astronaut John Young Suiting Up
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On the Spot Sketch of Astronaut John Young Suiting Up
Sketches made in the suit-up room at Cape Kennedy as astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke prepare for the Apollo 16 mission to the Moon.
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Helmet Display at Johnsons Space Center
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Helmet Display at Johnsons Space Center
(In 1975 the United States and the Soviet Union undertook the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission. In preparation for the mission, teams of Russian cosmonauts and scientists toured the Johnson Space Center. Here a Russian scientist observes an experimental space helmet.
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Classroom of Heroism
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Classroom of Heroism
Russian cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts attend Apollo-Soyuz briefing at the Johnson Space Center.
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The Spirit of Flight Research (detail)
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The Spirit of Flight Research (detail)
The Space Shuttle Columbia flying piggyback on a specially modified 747 jumbo jet. Detail from a McCall mural at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
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Monotype of Shuttle Launch
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Monotype of Shuttle Launch
A monotype depicting the dramatic liftoff of the Space Shuttle.
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Earth to Moon Shuttle (detail) - Life Magazine Cover
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Earth to Moon Shuttle (detail) - Life Magazine Cover
In a painting from 1964, McCall depicts a shuttle that plies between Earth orbit and lunar orbit. The smaller ships take off from the shuttle and land on either the Earth or the Moon for the transfer of personnel to and from work stations in space.
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Mars Colony
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Mars Colony
A Mars landing operation, with astronauts wearing maneuvering units.
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Construction site in Earth Orbit (detail)
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Construction site in Earth Orbit (detail)
A construction project common-place in Earth orbit perhaps twenty-five to fifty years from now. Tugs offload cargo from a shuttle while men work in space. The Earth's horizon is visible in the background.
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The Space Mural (detail)
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Moonrise
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Cosmic Man
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Spacecraft Study for War of the Worlds
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City of Skyscrapers
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City of Skyscrapers
The high-speed efficient monorail system is only one means of transportation available in this city of skyscrapers, floating spheres and recreation areas.
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Grand Canyon Arrival
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Grand Canyon Arrival
A floating habitat over the Grand Canyon.
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Horizons Concept Art
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Horizons Concept Art
The floating city rests on stilt-like legs that support is when it is not moving from place to place. In the foreground, people move through the sky with ease wearing individual flight belts much like those of Buck Rogers. The planet in the background suggests a time when we may be able to move the satellites and planets into closer juxtaposition to Earth.
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Moonlit World
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Moonlit World
A monotype of a floating city over the moonlit mountains of Arizona.
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