Artwork Created By: MARS Scientific

Title: Endless Inspiration (4K Still Image)

On September 15, 2021, the crew of Inspiration4 blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, officially beginning the age of civilian spaceflight.

Endless Inspiration is a dynamic artwork incorporating advanced scientific imagery of this historic mission. Captured by tracking telescopes at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, this work preserves a unique record of the Inspiration4 spaceflight from liftoff to orbit, and presents data of a kind never before seen by the public.

The first All-Civilian Mission to Orbit was commanded by Jared Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Named in recognition of the four-person crew that raised awareness and funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, this historic mission ushered in a new era for human spaceflight and exploration.

The astronaut’s journey from the launchpad to space is showcased as an endless sequence, with the many stages of flight seamlessly flowing one into the other. This presentation invites viewers to immerse themselves in the voyage, taking in the entire launch at a glance, or discovering unique events along the way.

Endless Inspiration has more than 3 terabytes of telescopic video data embedded in it, including hundreds of thousands of unique images painstakingly stitched together from multiple long-range tracking telescopes. Each telescope's view was processed individually using proprietary techniques never before seen outside of government programs. Those images were fused together to create a super-resolution high dynamic range video simultaneously rendering the finest details of the spacecraft hardware and the faint expanse of sunlit rocket plumes in space - in their true colors.

Endless Inspiration is the first-ever NFT from MARS Scientific, and the first in a series of Space NFTs that the company is minting to preserve and celebrate the history of spaceflight.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of Endless Inspiration will be donated to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The official logos for Inspiration4 and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are used with permission.

About MARS Scientific:

MARS Scientific (www.MarsScientific.com) is a commercial aerospace imaging company providing long-range telescopic tracking and imaging of rockets, spacecraft, and suborbital launch vehicles. For more than 25 years, MARS has quietly provided NASA, the United States Government, and commercial space providers with exceptional long-range telescopic spacecraft imaging.

This is an open edition that will be available only during Miami Art Week 2021