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A Saturn mural

A Saturn mural
A Saturn mural Planetary Society charter member Mike Mackowski created this mural depicting the Rockhopper, a spacecraft he imagined carrying astronauts to a moon of Saturn. Using pastel chalk on poster paper, Mike created this 50 years ago to decorate his dorm room while attending the University of Arizona in Tucson. In the years following the Apollo program’s successful exploration of the Moon, many people like Mike had faith that humanity would soon extend its presence deeper into the Solar System. Mike kept this mural as decoration in subsequent apartments and his home today to remind himself of that forward-looking vision of continuing exploration. Mike Mackowski