Painting, Brushed Ink and Acrylic on Paper

Watercolor painting on paper. T-6 Hours 50 Minutes for Apollo 16, 16 April 1972. A page from a spiral-bound sketchbook that contains other accessioned artworks. A dark blue square with brownish-red tints in the center of the page is defined by a thin blue border. Bright white and blue beams radiate from the middle of the image, illuminating a small white rocket standing in the very center. Text in the lower right corner of the entire page reads: "The view from the steps of the NASA briefing stand at the press site…The barge canal reflects the waiting rocket at six o'clock on the morning it will come to life." Text in the upper left margin reads: "-A giant cathedral of light…and tonight it will be gone."