Painting, Acrylic and Ink on Paper

Network Control Operations Display, 25 April 1972. A page from a spiral-bound sketchbook. A representation of the Goddard Space Flight Center's network control operations display during the flight of Apollo 16. A row of three rectangular screens crosses the middle of the piece and a map of the world is in the top right. The left screen appears to be a map of the earth against a bright blue ocean. The middle screen is the live TV coverage of astronaut Ken Mattingly walking on the moon. The wider right screen is a graphic presentation of the command module Casper's flight between the earth and the moon. Text in the lower left corner reads: "Apollo 16, 25 April 72, 15:30 hours / Ken Mattingly "walks" in deep space to retreive (sic) the mapping camara (sic) film cassettes from the service module bay - As seen on the Goddard Space Flight Center's Network Control Operations Display. Live TV on the Left…A graphic representation of "Casper's" flight path on the right." The text in the center of the bottom margin reads: "-small white "dishes" on the map of earth indicate tracking-stations in use." The text in the lower right corner reads: "-small white circle next to the moon indicates position of sub-satellite released into lunar orbit by Orion yesterday."