Astronaut turns space photographs into quilts
Clip: Season 16 | 2m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles
Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles. Bonus video from SCIENCE episode
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Astronaut turns space photographs into quilts
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Learn about retired NASA astronaut and quilter Karen Nyberg's space textiles. Bonus video from SCIENCE episode
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI spent 20 years as an astronaut and now I am self-employed doing artwork and fabric design.
Looking out the window of the International Space Station I loved taking photographs.
What better subject matter than this beautiful Earth and what I like to do with my pictures was try to make them artistic.
I would see a view that I thought was artistic and try to get that so after I retired from NASA and was ready to move on to next career I'd had the opportunity to work with Robert Kaufman Fabrics to create a fabric line and so what I did was select several of my favorite pictures of Earth\ kind of showing the different textures of Earth and worked with a couple designers and came up with fabrics based on those photographs.
We called this line Earth Views.
It was just really a lot of fun and so rewarding to be able to share all those pictures that I took in that medium.
When I was in space I wanted to try to make something with things that were already on the space station and I also wanted to make something for my son who was three at the time.
I had been collecting fabric from the Russian food containers.
There's these metal boxes and there's some like velcro-like fabric that lines it.
I took some of this fabric, some of the thread I brought and just made this dinosaur.
When I got back to Earth, I remember handing it to him and he just he like felt it, just dropped it because it's very, it's stiff, I mean it's stuffed with cut up t-shirt.
At three years old, I don't think he appreciated it as much as he does now at fourteen.
He understands what it really means.
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