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Space shuttle Discovery seen from above over a blue disc on a navy sunburst

Shown: 18 × 24 in · UnframedPreview is to relative scale

Plate Nº 008 · First edition

Discovery

Space Shuttle Orbiter OV-103 · 1984–2011

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The real thing

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Vehicle
Space Shuttle Orbiter OV-103
Flights
39
In service
1984–2011
Primary source
NASA photograph of Discovery after undocking from the ISS on STS-133 (public domain)
Printing
Made to order, one at a time

Why I made this series

These launches happened. People sat on top of that much fire and went. I wanted the posters to feel like the last second of the countdown: loud, simple and impossible to look away from.

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