INTERACTIVE STUDIO / SCIENCE + HISTORY + ART

A world of stories.
New ways to explore.

Interactive websites, virtual tours, exhibits and live programs that help people discover science, history and art.

Animated tour previews: Apollo Saturn V Center demonstration, Historic Apollo 1 Pad 34, Space for Art, CCSFS Museum Hangar C and the Navaho missile site. Space Force Museum LC 26, LC 5/6 and the USAF Vanguard site LC 18A are in development. The looping launch countdown is a visual transition, not an event or availability announcement. Explore the tour collection in the sections below.
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The art behind Earthrise

Original painting by E. Lee Wilson, Jr.: a textured blue Earth against a star-filled sky, with the lunar surface along the right edge.
Original painting by E. Lee Wilson, Jr.

This painting inspired the animated Earthrise scene on our homepage.

Lee’s painting was inspired by Earthrise, photographed by Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968. Original photograph: NASA / Bill Anders.

Bill Anders’ Apollo 8 Earthrise photograph, with Earth to the left of the lunar surface, matching the painting’s orientation.
NASA / Bill Anders · Apollo 8, 1968. Landscape display crop; original photograph preserved.

Find your way into Astrascape.

E. Lee Wilson, Jr. with his Visions of the Cosmos display.

Meet the founder

E. Lee Wilson, Jr.

A science-based artist and science communicator bringing art, education and interactive storytelling together.

The story behind Astrascape