Details
FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)
INSIDE THE 'BABY' SPACE STATION
signed Fred Freeman (lower right)
paint on board
2214 x 17 in. (56.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Provenance
Randy Liebermann, Washington, D.C.
Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.
Literature
Wernher von Braun with Cornelius Ryan, “Baby Space Station,” Collier’s, 27 June 1953, p. 35.
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Rhesus monkeys in space, with a particularly extensive working archive. This great cutaway shows scientific and other equipment and three rhesus monkeys, one strapped to a seat and two free to move about in zero-g.

With eight related photostats, a pencil sketch by Wernher von Braun, thirteen pages of notes by Fred Freeman with small sketches, eight pencil drawings by Freeman, and 12 Ozalid reproductions being the working files for this illustration. Several of the prints include lengthy technical notes by Wernher von Braun in pencil.

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