Deep Space Navy Wall Art

Deep Space Navy — 6 museum-grade prints in this palette. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt without catastrophic micrometeoroid damage — a engineering validation that unlocked outer-planet exploration. Its Jupiter flyby returned the first close images of the gas giant's magnetosphere and radiation environment. Asteroid 16 Psyche is unique among large main-belt bodies for its high metal content — leading scientists including Lindy Elkins-Tanton to hypothesize it may be the exposed iron-nickel core of a protoplanet whose mantle was stripped by collisions. Psyche the mission will be the first dedicated orbiter of such a body, potentially rewriting textbooks on planetary differentiation. STS-1 launched on 12 April 1981 — twenty years to the day after Yuri Gagarin's first human spaceflight — and proved that a winged spacecraft could return astronauts to a runway rather than an ocean splashdown or desert parachute landing. The shuttle program became NASA's primary human spaceflight vehicle for three decades, building the International Space Station and launching Hubble, Chandra, and dozens of other payloads.

Updated 13 Jun 2026