Lunar module

  

Failed rocket launch – Titan 34D-9, April 18, 1986.

  

Pluto’s outline: July 14, 2015

  

Voyager’s View

  

“Earth rais’d up her head”

  
“Earth rais’d up her head,

From the darkness dread & drear.”

from William Blake, “Earth’s Answer”

(Sketch based on first Earthrise image from the Moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on Aug. 23, 1966.)

“What have I learned? Of them? Of me?”

  
“What have I learned?  Of them?  Of me?”

(a fragment from “Ulysses”)

Separation

  

“First you will come to the Sirens”

  
“First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them.”

–from Homer, “The Odyssey”

(Comet 67P from 1488 km out.  Based on a Sept 2015 Rosetta image.)

Gemini XII splashdown

  

Shadows seem to have their place

Shadows seem to have their place
beneath my trees and out in space

I would go there just to see
a shadow same as beneath my tree

stretched thin across another world
gray and black horizontal hold.