Teacher: Elise Payne
School: Ida B Wells Academic and Performing Arts Complex, Jackson, MS

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "I portrayed Shoemaker as placing the NASA flag on the moon to illustrate his role as a founder in space exploration and planetary research. In the background, I recreated the scene of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hitting Jupiter and Shoemaker witnessing this event through the 18" Schmidt camera at Palomar Observatory."

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