SpaceX

First Flight

The second Falcon 9 ever flown, leaving Cape Canaveral with the first private spacecraft that would go to orbit and come back.

First Flight
First Flight
First Flight shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 30 × 40 cm
First Flight shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 30 × 40 cm
First Flight shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 30 × 40 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
30 × 40 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$130

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About this work

Before this flight only three national space programmes had put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it home: the United States, Russia and China. On 8 December 2010 a Falcon 9 lifted a Dragon capsule off Cape Canaveral, and the capsule came back intact. It was only the rocket's second flight, and the first had carried a capsule simulator rather than a working spacecraft.

Two lightning towers lean inward and the rocket between them appears to taper, which is the lens rather than the hardware: this was made from close in, on a very wide angle. Ice sheets off the body as it rises through the middle of the frame, the sun burns as a starburst at the left edge, and a white exhaust cloud fills the bottom third.

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Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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