This turned into an exclusively-art picspam post because I only discovered this artist today, via Andrew Chaikin’s newly-launched blog. The artist is Paul Calle, one of the original artists contracted by NASA to document the space program, illustrator of I think every Apollo-era stamp I own, and the brilliant mind behind the pieces you see here. I’m absolutely captivated by the above, Power to GO — the canvas literally looks like it’s melting from the heat of liftoff.

The above is The Great Moment, a 4′x8′ piece (note: those are FEET, not inches), and the below is better known as a 1969 stamp, First Man on the Moon.