An exciting event takes place on 8th January 2024 at Cape Canaveral, USA with the launch of the NASA rocket to the moon.
An image of this original drawing by Sue Tatham, South Africa, has been selected by art curator Dr Samuel Peralta to travel in his personal payload on the Peregrine Mission to the moon! This is a fantastic achievement for any artist to selected from artist around the world!
This portrait of Sue will be displayed at the Mini Greyton Art Walk from 22-24 March 2024 in Greyton! This is an opportunity to view this valuable art piece and meet and listen to Sue talking about her inspiration in creating this art piece!
This moon mission part of the Lunar Codex archived on the Lunar Seal. The original remains on earth in my studio until it is sold. The Peregrine Mission is also slated to be one of the first U.S. lunar landings since the final mission of the Apollo program – Apollo 17 – over 50 years ago so that is an achievement in and of itself.
Here is a photo of how the Peregrine lander is incorporated into the nose cone of the Vulcan rocket.
(Photo by CNN)
The Launch and Landing
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Astrobotic are targeting 2:18 a.m. EST Monday, Jan. 8, for the first commercial robotic launch to the Moon’s surface. Carrying NASA science, liftoff of ULA’s Vulcan rocket and Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander will happen from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Live launch coverage will air on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website, with pre-launch events starting Thursday, Jan. 4. The Peregrine is expected to land on the Moon in March 2024!
About The Art
The painting of young woman is in a serious reverie and in deep concentration. The reason she is this intense, is that she was standing on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa on the very soil that ex President Nelson Mandela lived and worked, incarcerated here as a political prisoner by the Apartheid Regime of the then political ruling party of South Africa. Here she is visiting Robben Island to learn about this horrific, emotional, and brutal part of this country’s history. Mandela opposed this Regime and was imprisoned for 27 years.
(Copyrights: Sue Tatham)
This young woman is American and was staying in our home whilst studying the groups of various societies and cultures of South Africa, and in this instance, the White Afrikaner society. This was a painful and poignant moment to experience. The emotions I experienced as yet another observer that day, were a highly emotionally-charged mingling of sheer disbelief, lack of trust in humanity, and of imagining the sickening atrocities and cruelty of the perpetrators. To me, this image encapsulates all of this torturous reality. Dimensions600 × 600 × 50 cm
Come and visit the Greyton Art Walk and view this and other Artist on display!
