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Columbia Orbiter 102 - You Make It Happen!

Poster
1981 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

"Columbia Orbiter 102 - You Make It Happen!" Space Shuttle poster, composed of a rectangular grid of smaller photographic images illustrating people who engaged with the Space Shuttle project at work. The second square down and from the left in the grid has the word 'YOU!' printed in white on a pale turquoise blue background. Overlaid onto the grid is a white linear diagrammatic drawing of the Space Shuttle. To the top right of the poster (above the grid) printed in white are the words, 'COLUMBIA / [ORBITER 102]', and in the left-hand corner, in a finer black type is 'You make / it happen!'. Along the top of the grid, in a smaller black typeface, are the words, 'Space Shuttle Transportation System', and at the lower left-hand side of the poster, parallel to the bottom corner of the grid, in the larger black type face, are the words, 'Launch 1981'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleColumbia Orbiter 102 - You Make It Happen! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Brief description
"Columbia Orbiter 102 - You Make It Happen!" Space Shuttle poster issued by Rockwell International, United States, 1981
Physical description
"Columbia Orbiter 102 - You Make It Happen!" Space Shuttle poster, composed of a rectangular grid of smaller photographic images illustrating people who engaged with the Space Shuttle project at work. The second square down and from the left in the grid has the word 'YOU!' printed in white on a pale turquoise blue background. Overlaid onto the grid is a white linear diagrammatic drawing of the Space Shuttle. To the top right of the poster (above the grid) printed in white are the words, 'COLUMBIA / [ORBITER 102]', and in the left-hand corner, in a finer black type is 'You make / it happen!'. Along the top of the grid, in a smaller black typeface, are the words, 'Space Shuttle Transportation System', and at the lower left-hand side of the poster, parallel to the bottom corner of the grid, in the larger black type face, are the words, 'Launch 1981'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 69.8cm
  • Width: 53.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'COLUMBIA / [ORBITER 102]' (To the top right of the poster (above the grid) printed in white)
  • 'You make / it happen!' (In the left-hand corner, in a finer black type)
  • 'Space Shuttle Transportation System' (Along the top of the grid, in a smaller black typeface)
  • 'Launch 1981' (at the lower left-hand side of the poster, parallel to the bottom corner of the grid, in the larger black type face)
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Other number
LS.677 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Accession number
E.186-2004

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2006
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