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PAT MUSICK

For over thirty years Musick’s unique environmental art has created a dialogue that complements the architecture and design in residential settings, corporate, hospitality, business office, and medical spaces.

Musick’s work is in over a hundred public and private collections in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. This includes many prestigious art museums including Crystal Bridges Museum of American art, Toledo Museum, Grounds For Sculpture,  Arkansas Arts Center and the Alexandria and Southern Vermont Art Center in Vermont.

JERRY CARR

Carr was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crews and as CAPCOM for the Apollo 8 and Apollo 12 flights, and was involved in the development and testing of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. He was in the likely crew rotation position to serve as lunar module pilot for Apollo 19 and walk on the Moon before this mission was canceled by NASA in 1970.

As commander of the Skylab 4 mission, Carr and his all-rookie crew conducted a remarkable science program that included a wealth of biomedical investigations designed to test the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body, Earth observations associated with the Earth Resources Experiment Package (EREP), and solar observations from instruments mounted on the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) that revolutionized our understanding of the Sun.

His work after his retirement from NASA was just as impressive. He teamed up with his wife, Pat Musick, to create some of the most impressive sculptures in American Art, matching his genius for engineering with her creative artistic vision.

SUPPORTING CAST

(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) 

PAUL MUENCH

Muench is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and a National Board-Certified teacher with a B.S. in Secondary Education, M.S. in Reading Education (SUNY Oswego), and CAS in Educational Leadership (LeMoyne College). As an educator for over 30 years, Muench has taken his passion for developing future leaders from the classroom to the greater community. He has developed and led numerous leadership development seminars for businesses, school administrations, state-wide athletic programs, and non-profit organizations where he teaches motivation and team building in addition to identifying individuals’ unique leadership abilities. Muench’s years as a public educator and athletic coach serve as a foundation for his innate ability to shape leaders from all backgrounds.

BILL HENKEL

Henkel first served in the White House Advance Office under Presidents Nixon and Ford, including as Director of the Advance Office beginning in 1973. In September 1982 Henkel left Merrill Lynch for a full-time position as Director of Presidential Advance for Ronald Reagan. In March 1984 Henkel was promoted to Deputy Assistant, and then to Assistant to President Reagan in January 1986.

DAVID SHAYLER

Shayler is an accomplished author and Jerry Carr’s Biographer. Shayler had the good fortune to meet and interview astronauts and engineers who worked on the program and access retired documentation from that exciting era. Shayler has traveled to the United States and Russia to tour leading spaceflight facilities; interview astronauts, cosmonauts, managers, and engineers; and research official documentation on various aspects of human space history, hardware, and operations, including the Gemini program. In addition, he has completed an extensive program of lectures, presentations, and workshops across the UK to various educational, social, and professional groups.

ANDREW CHAIKIN

A former editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, Chaikin is an award-winning science journalist and space historian. Chaikin has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for more than three decades. Writer-director and explorer James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens of the Deep) called him “our best historian of the space age.” Chaikin is best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, widely regarded as the definitive account of the moon missions. First published in 1994, this acclaimed work was the main basis for Tom Hanks’ 12-part HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, which won the Emmy for best miniseries in 1998. Chaikin has written books and articles and is a speaker about leadership in the space program.  Chaikin is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, and the NPR programs Fresh Air and Talk of the Nation. He has been an advisor to NASA on space policy and public communications.

FRANK BORMAN

A hero of the American Space Odyssey, Frank Borman led the first team of American astronauts to circle the moon, extending man’s horizons into space. He is internationally known as the Commander of the 1968 Apollo 8 Mission. A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. A career Air Force officer from 1950, his assignments included service as a fighter pilot, an operational pilot and instructor, an experimental test pilot, and an assistant professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at West Point. When selected by NASA, Frank Borman was an instructor at the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California. In 1967 he served as a member of the Apollo 204 Fire Investigation Board, investigating the causes of the fire which killed three astronauts aboard an Apollo 1 spacecraft.

GENE KRANZ

American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13 and was later portrayed in the major motion picture of the same name by actor Ed Harris. He characteristically wore a close-cut flattop hairstyle and the dapper "mission" vests (waistcoats) of different styles and materials made by his wife, Marta Kranz, for his Flight Director missions.

He coined the phrase "tough and competent", which became known as the "Kranz Dictum". Kranz has been the subject of movies, documentary films, and books and periodical articles. Kranz is a recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom.[1] In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Kranz was ranked as the #2 most popular space hero.

ALAN BEAN

Captain Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, man’s second lunar landing. In November 1969 and was spacecraft commander of Skylab III. Captain Bean has logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in space—of which 10 hours and 26 minutes were spent in EVAs on the moon and in earth orbit. Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his full time to painting. He said his decision was based on the fact that, in his 18 years as an astronaut, he was fortunate enough to visit worlds and see sights no artist’s eye, past or present, has ever viewed firsthand and he hopes to express these experiences through the medium of art.

ED GIBSON

Gibson was the science pilot of Skylab 4.The third and final crewed visit to the Skylab space station, it launched November 16, 1973, and concluded February 8, 1974.This was the longest crewed flight (84 days 1 hour 15 minutes) in the history of crewed space exploration at that time. Gibson was accompanied on the record-setting 34.5-million-mile flight by Commander Gerald P. Carr and Pilot William R. Pogue. They successfully completed 56 experiments, 26 science demonstrations, 15 subsystem detailed objectives, and 13 student investigations during their 1,214 revolutions of the Earth. They also acquired a wide variety of Earth resources observations data using Skylab’s Earth resources experiment package camera and sensor array.Dr. Gibson was the crewman primarily responsible for the 338 hours of Apollo Telescope Mount operation, which made extensive observations of solar processes.

Until the Soviet Union’s Soyuz 26 broke the record in March 1978, Gibson and his Skylab 4 teammates held the world record for individual time in space: 2,017 hours 15 minutes 32 seconds.[ Gibson logged 15 hours and 22 minutes in three EVAs outside the Skylab Orbital Workshop. Gibson is the last surviving Skylab 4 crew member (Carr died in 2020, and Pogue died in 2014).

BETH WILLIAMS

Williams had been married just a few years when her husband, astronaut C.C. Williams, was killed in a jet trainer crash. Widowed, with one toddler and another on the way, she was determined to create a secure future for her children. Williams is CEO of TechTrans, whose customer base is beyond its original client, NASA. In 2001, nearly 100 percent of revenue was from the agency. In 2010, only 56 percent of revenue came from NASA, and clients include those in aerospace and science, global security, international health, joint business ventures, and other technical fields.

JEFF CARR

Carr is the President, Griffin Communications and has over 35 years of experience in aerospace communications and public relations, of which 30 years were spent in key management roles overseeing a wide spectrum of strategic communications, including crisis communications consulting, training and implementation.  He has been Director of Communications and Public Relations for United Space Alliance and Director of Public Affairs, and Branch Chief, News and Information at NASA. He was also Press Liaison and Information Specialist for Flight Crew and Mission Operations, he also served as NASA TV Technical Director.

JONATHAN EDWARDS

Edwards is an artist, musician, folk singer, songwriter, and performer, perhaps best known for his crossover folk singles “Sunshine” and “Shanty.”

CATHY MUSICK

Cathy Musick is Jerry Carr’s stepdaughter and Pat Musick’s daughter. She is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of five. A graduate of Skidmore College, with her senior year at Cornell, she holds a Master’s degree from Texas A and M University. She taught for many years in the Southhampton School District where she directed the Enrichment Program. Cathy made many contributions to the lives of the artist and the astronaut. She served as proof reader and editor of her mothers many books, as the principal photographer for “The Piero Affair” and for six years was their travel companion on their annual trips to Italy. 

COREY EARLE

Since 2011, Earle has taught AMST 2001: The First American University, a 400-person course on the history of Cornell. He serves as an unofficial university historian and frequently gives presentations on Cornell-related topics to students, staff, and alumni. Earle also works in Alumni Affairs & Development, where he helps cultivate and steward alumni giving and relationships with Cornell. 

DANIEL MULHAUSER, SJ

A Syracuse native, Father Dan served in the Army from 1944 to 1946. Jesuit educated, he received his bachelor’s in philosophy from Regis University in 1949 and a master’s in philosophy from St. Louis University in 1951, the same year he entered the Society of Jesus. He first came to the Heights in 1962, serving as an instructor of theology and chaplain until 1968. After spending two years in Chicago completing his doctor of ministry degree, he returned, serving as a chaplain from 1970 until he left LeMoyne in 1974. Over the next 28 years, Father Dan undertook a number of international assignments, including more than 15 years working in Guam in several capacities. In 2002, he came back to LeMoyne, where his work as chaplain of the alumni has allowed him to reconnect with many students from the ’60s and ’70s. His calm, quiet, and thoughtful demeanor belies a side of him that skied competitively well into his 80s.

DR. JEFF HOFFMAN

Hoffman is a professor at MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. As a NASA astronaut (1978-1997) he made five space flights, becoming the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours of flight time aboard the Space Shuttle. Dr. Hoffman was the Payload Commander of STS-46, the first flight of the US-Italian Tethered Satellite System. He has performed four spacewalks, including the first unplanned contingency spacewalk in NASA’s history (STS 51D; April 1985) and the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope (STS 61; December 1993). In 2007, Dr. Hoffman was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.

ED WHITFIELD

Whitfield is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and was a long-time social justice activist from the Black Student Movement and the Black Power Movement before becoming involved in cooperative development and philanthropy. He now spends most of his time trying to help communities build self-reliant economies to meet their needs and elevate the quality of life. Whitfield is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities (F4DC) and serves on the board of The Working World (TWW) and the New Economy Coalition (NEC).

DON BACIGALUPI

From 1999 to 2003, Bacigalupi served as executive director of the San Diego Museum of Art. In August 2009, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art named Bacigalupi as director. In November 2014, Bacigalupi was named founding president of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Worth magazine wrote, “Don Bacigalupi is arguably America’s most innovative museum director, and he’s become a trusted partner to some of the nation’s wealthiest individuals when they want to create public art institutions.”

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