This mosaic of the Space Shuttle Columbia taking off was produced by hand by mosaic artist Wernher Krutein. This is a mosaic that honors the seven shuttle astronauts that were lost in the Columbia Space Shuttle accident. It now resides in the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey California. Wernher Krutein was commisioned by the museum to produce this huge mosaic. It is 18 x 18 feet in size and is installed as a main exhibit in this museum. Krutein spent over 500 hours producing this mosaic by hand. At eye height the artist created seven equadistant areas featuring each of the seven astronauts. If you would like to commision this artist for a custom mosaic please contact Wernher here:

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This mosaic is composed of 8000 seperate images from NASA and the PHOTOVALET® collection by Wernher Krutein.

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For a detail view of a portion of this mosaic click here: