Jas Felter (4 more) - CANADA - 2017

Harley 1940 - 2017

Harley of Terra Candella (1940-2017) A Master of Artistamps and a Great Friend... Never look back! Never forget... R.I.P. jas felter  http://terracandella.com/artistamps/index.html 

Artistamps from Steve Smith; honoring Harley

I first met Harley in 1981 at the Image Resource Center in Cleveland. He was planning a mail art networking congress in Europe and was waiting to hear about funding. He'd planned an European trip to meet several artists and was interested in my upcoming tour. We both had a healthy interest in artistamps and his work is well represented here in the museum. I would receive a phone call after each package was shipped to verify my receipt. Harley I'll miss your calls! ginny

From EF Higgins III – Harley Frances didn’t like to be called by this name. The first time I met him in the mail art network was with Buster or Anna or some sort of thing. Harley was married at the time to Cathy and he worked in the art department in Oberlin, OH. She worked as a cook at the local restaurant. They had several kids, one named Tristan. He donated half of his artistamp/mail art collection to Oberlin and the other half just recently. With help from Oberlin Harley flew 5 or 7 mail artists in for a show for a week, all expenses paid. There's a document Harley produced about the visit. I think amongst those attending were Steve Durland, Crackerjack Kid, and me. While there I had a rare opportunity to have Harley sit for a portrait. I painted him with his signature cigar and I thought it would be a good idea to include the Terra Candella unicorn. What happened next you cannot believe! I don’t remember how it all happened but the painting got smeared. It ended up in my studio in a pile with other paintings until now. I didn’t remember it until I heard Harley passed away.

Cascadia Artpost's Tribute 

Steve Smith's Tribute

Ginny Lloyd (2 more) and Jas Felter (1 more) - BENNU Asteroid Mission - 2016

NASA called all space enthusiasts to send their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. This will be the first U.S. mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for study.

Launch

The OSIRIS-REx launch window opens on September 3, 2016. The launch period will last for 39 days, with a 30 minute window available each day. OSIRIS-REx will leave Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket in the 411 configuration. Throughout the 39 days the characteristic energy (C₃) is fixed at 29.3km²/s², for a launch vehicle capability of 1955 kg.
The 411 configuration adds a single strap-on solid booster rocket to the first stage. The Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage, and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power its Centaur upper stage.
The fairing separates in preparation for the release of the spacecraft from the Centaur upper stage.

Return
The window for departing Bennu opens in March 2021. At this time OSIRIS-REx will fire the main engines and leave Bennu with a speed of 0.32 km/s (716 mph). This burn will place OSIRIS-REx on a ballistic trajectory that intersects the orbit of the Earth in September 2023. Return to the museum when it arrives to celebrate.

by Jas Felter

by Ginny Lloyd

by Ginny Lloyd

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