Thursday, 25 April 2024

Navigating the Moon with Art


Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. via NASA https://ift.tt/eR53Kpb
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