Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar

In 1969, abstract painter Alma Thomas watched Apollo 10 astronauts make live color television broadcasts from space. Their mission gave her a new source of inspiration. This book interweaves events from Apollo 10 with Thomas’s creation of the painting Snoopy Sees a Sunrise. It follows how space exploration and the Moon missions influenced a Black modern artist’s bright, bold abstract work.