art piece from retirement of USAF Col Lamar D. Bowles signed by NASA team

[texashydrangea]

hello.

i recently purchased an image - signed around the border - to mark the retirement of Col. Lamar D. Bowles (USAF detailee to NASA; war base commander for down-range Caribbean Tracking sites for Apollo flights*).

the piece features a beautiful rendering of several vehicles and is autographed on the border. i wonder who created the illustration (can't find anything similar online) and which vehicles are featured (are any of them concepts or was everything produced)?

the big text says "from your friends in launch vehicles. it's signed by folks including: Col. Dick Schaeffer (sp?), Bob Browning, George Murphey, John Watson, Lee Graham, Dave Ewing, Mike Fiore, Mike Carpenter, Cal Bowles, Dutch Ferryman, Margorie Essman (sp?), Bob Gates, Mae Hayes, Mary M. Leekey, Thomas Sumner, Jim Hudson, Joseph A. Marino.

i've found Bowles' obituary (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bay_area/name/lamar-bowles-obituary?id=11628507) but am interested in more about how his job worked with NASA. and i'd like to know more about the people who signed his retirement piece.

thanks so much. i love space history and learning about all the people who contributed on behalf of mankind!

amy

*from the "25th Anniversary of Apollo" Space Center Rotary program.

[edzieba]

Centre: STS stack, in early garb (white painted tank)
To it's right: X-15
Upper-right: Apollo-Soyuz
Left: Apollo
Lower-left: Skylab, in post-launch configuration (single solar array and twin-pole sunshield depicted)
Lower-centre: Looks like an S-II stage

STS orbiter appearance and post-launch Skylab appearance dates the image to likely no earlier than 1973, and no later than 1982 (switch to unpainted tanks).

[LittleBird]

Centre: STS stack, in early garb (white painted tank)
To it's right: X-15
Upper-right: Apollo-Soyuz
Left: Apollo
Lower-left: Skylab, in post-launch configuration (single solar array and twin-pole sunshield depicted)
Lower-centre: Looks like an S-II stage

STS orbiter appearance and post-launch Skylab appearance dates the image to likely no earlier than 1973, and no later than 1982 (switch to unpainted tanks).

And one  thing that links them all is North American/North American Rockwell/Rockwell International where his obituary said he worked at one time.