Description

This poster features a mono-tone cartoon of a rocket crashing in through the ceiling and into a laboratory space where three men are at a table. The rocket is labeled “Icarus / US” and the men are consulting images and various schematic drawings of rockets on launchpads. Text on the poster reads “Mechanical Engineering/ Banquet 1960 // … Gentleman, I’m sure I don’t have to remind you of the gravity of this project. The big breakthrough will have to come out of this lab. You know as well as I do why the other fellows are so far ahead of us. Now Washington is breathing down all our necks and I can assure you that no further work is possible in any field until you men come up with something to catch all the damn plaster that’s been falling down around here.” This item is a print created from an ink drawing by Donald Hatfield.