Pat Rawlings
Illustration — Fuel is mined from Phobos with the help of a nuclear reactor. (Pat Rawlings, 1986) Patrick Rawlings (born 1955) is an American technical illustrator and space artist. Since 1970s his illustrations related to spaceflight featured in hundreds of books and magazines, as well as in film and television.
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Pat Rawlings
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- 1955
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- illustrator · artist
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- University of Houston–Clear Lake
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Illustration — Fuel is mined from Phobos with the help of a nuclear reactor. (Pat Rawlings, 1986) Patrick Rawlings (born 1955) is an American technical illustrator and space artist. Since 1970s his illustrations related to spaceflight featured in hundreds of books and magazines, as well as in film and television.
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His process combines traditional art and digital art; he refers to the result by the term "tradigital art", originally coined by Judith Moncrieff. A B.A. in Art earned from the University of Houston–Clear Lake. He is a Charter Fellow, and Trustee of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. He is the 1989 recipient of the Space Pioneer Awards from the National Space Society in "Compelling Art" category. He lives in the Texas Hill Country with his wife Linda.
Pat Rawlings studied at University of Houston–Clear Lake.
An artist impression of Pluto and its moon Charon.
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S91-52337 (1991) --- (Artist's concept of possible exploration programs.) The first humans on Mars may revisit the landing site of the Viking 2 Lander in order to study the effects that the Martian surface and atmosphere have had on the spacecraft. These images produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings. Technical concepts from NASA's Planetary Projects Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC).
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Pat Rawlings was born on 1 January 1955.
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- 1.S86-25375 (1986)
- 2.Space Sciences, Volume 4 "Our Future in Space", 2002, , p.p.137-138
- 3.Beyond: SFI artist imagines NASA's next great voyage - SpaceFlight Insider. www.spaceflightinsider.com.
- 4.Pat Rawlins bio (retrieved April 17, 2019)
- 5.National Space Society Space Pioneer Awards
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