"L Street Mural"
Livermore, CA
Artists involved:
Thomasin Dewhurst - portraits of the 5 astronauts, collars of Jose Hernandez and Ellen Ochoa
Anne Giancola - Space station, painting of words
Larry Lagin - rockets, clothing and badges
Matt Finders - Sky, stars, planets and galaxy
The mural is 77 feet wide and 19 feet tall. It’s located off of Railroad Avenue and North K Street and features the following astronauts: Jeff Wisoff, principle associate director of NIF & Photon Science; Tammy Jernigan, former senior advisor to the Laboratory Director’s Office of Defense Coordination; José Hernández, the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers and a former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineer for 15 years; Leroy Chiao, the commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station and a graduate of Monte Vista High School in Danville; and Ellen Ochoa, former researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and the former director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Tamara Jernigan
Jeff Wisoff
Ellen Ochoa
Jose Hernandez
Leroy Chiao
Livermore, CA
Artists involved:
Thomasin Dewhurst - portraits of the 5 astronauts, collars of Jose Hernandez and Ellen Ochoa
Anne Giancola - Space station, painting of words
Larry Lagin - rockets, clothing and badges
Matt Finders - Sky, stars, planets and galaxy
The mural is 77 feet wide and 19 feet tall. It’s located off of Railroad Avenue and North K Street and features the following astronauts: Jeff Wisoff, principle associate director of NIF & Photon Science; Tammy Jernigan, former senior advisor to the Laboratory Director’s Office of Defense Coordination; José Hernández, the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers and a former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineer for 15 years; Leroy Chiao, the commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station and a graduate of Monte Vista High School in Danville; and Ellen Ochoa, former researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and the former director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
All around the NASA astronauts are planets, the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, a rocket, as well as the Milky Way, the Big Dipper (and Little Dipper), Ursa Major and the North Star.
Tamara Jernigan
Jeff Wisoff
Ellen Ochoa
Jose Hernandez
Leroy Chiao