WASHINGTON DC — Robert McCall's A Cosmic View mural is displayed in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the National Air and Space Museum. Created for the museum's opening in 1976, the massive acrylic on canvas work measures 58.5 feet by 75 feet (17.8 by 22.9 meters) and celebrates humanity's recent Moon landing while depicting the first steps toward exploring the vast reaches of space. The mural features the birth of the universe, planets including Saturn and Mars with asteroids, an American astronaut on the lunar surface with the lunar module and a second astronaut in the background, plu

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