I♥ Pluto Festival 2021 | Imagining Pluto

I Heart Pluto Festival 2021, Day 5 | https://iheartpluto.org
Imagining Pluto: The Artist’s Journey to envision Pluto through the Ages. With IAAA Artists Dr. Dan Durda, Marilynn Flynn, and Ron Miller. Moderated by Jon Raimer.

Ron Miller is an illustrator and author specializing in astronomical subjects. His space art appears regularly in magazines such as Astronomy and Scientific American. He is the author of nearly 60 books of his own, including two histories of space art and two biographies of Chesley Bonestell. He also designs book covers and has worked on motion pictures. Ron also holds the distinction for the artist who created the art for the farthest distance traveled by a postage stamp! https://youtu.be/Ni_yn5nM09c https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/431628-farthest-distance-to-send-a-postage-stamp

Daniel D. Durda has more than 25 years of experience researching the collisional and dynamical evolution of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids, Vulcanoids, Kuiper belt comets, and interplanetary dust. He is an active pilot with time logged in over a dozen types of aircraft and has spent over 110 minutes of time in zero-gravity conducting experiments on NASA’s KC-135 Reduced Gravity Research Aircraft. A finalist in the 2004 NASA astronaut selection, Durda is one of three SwRI payload specialists who will fly on multiple suborbital spaceflights with Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. He has co-authored a book, published numerous articles popularizing planetary science and human exploration of space, and has appeared in over 70 nationally-broadcast television science documentaries. He is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Astronomical Artists; his space art has appeared in many magazines and books and has been internationally exhibited.

Marilynn Flynn’s artwork has appeared in numerous books, magazines, TV programs, DVDs, science exhibits, art shows, and websites. Her paintings have been commissioned by such prestigious organizations as the Earth & Space Foundation, The Planetary Society, and NASA. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as in private and corporate art collections.