#eugene shoemaker
(pieces from 2020 which i hold really close to my heart)
on july 31, 1999 eugene shoemaker, an american geologist, became the first and only person whose ashes were carried to the moon. he had a dream to fly there once, yet it came true only two years after his death.
nightwish released a song about him in 2020, and it touched me deeply. inspired by its ending, i wanted to portray the moment when shoemaker finally found peace.
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U.S. Geological Survey geologist, Eugene M. Shoemaker, and assistant pose with cross-section drawing of Meteor Crater, Arizona, 1960 ca. It is “assistants” like this that made space exploration possible.
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