Apollo 13 Insignia: What’s with the horses?
By Sara J. Martinez. Published Thursday, April 16th, 2009
In 1969, the St. Regis Hotel in New York City commissioned artist Luman Winter to depict a mural of the great horses of the sun-god Apollo, whose mission was to pull the Chariot of the Sun across the sky.
The Apollo 13 crew asked Winter to design the mission’s insignia based on this 20-by-8 foot mural [...]
Loading ...