Space Force’s pretend space battle
Space Force unveiled its first official painting in October, which left us scratching our heads. The artwork, crafted by aviation and aerospace defense artist Rick Herter, depicts a Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar—a 1950s era concept that never took off. The painting depicts the spaceplane intercepting an adversary satellite to stop it from disabling a friendly satellite. Space Force opted for the fictional, retrofuturistic painting due to the “highly classified nature of many space operations.”
