Chesley Bonestall: 1888-1986.Chesley Bonestell Chesley Bonestell (1888 – 11 june 1986) was a painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. : 1888-1986 Chesley Bonestell, long considered the dean of astronomical artists for his realistic portrayals of planetary and other space-relatd themes, died June 11 at this home in Carmel, Calif., at the age of 98. Having painted such topics since his teens, he later became particularly noted -- and influential on a generation of younger space artists -- when he illustrated the now-classic 1949 book, The Conquest of Space, a collaboration with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun Noun 1. Wernher von Braun - United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) and writer Willie Ley. Besides illustrating several other books as well as articles for LIFE, LOOK and other magazines, his work appeared in a number of films such as "Destination Moon" and "When Worlds Collide" (to say nothing of nonspace films including "The Hunchback hunchback, abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame " and "Citizen Kane"). In March of this year, as the result of a contest conducted by the Planetary Society, an asteroid (number 3129) discovered in 1979 by then-Caltech astronomers Eleanor Helin and Schelte J. Bus |
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