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The Beauty of Weightlessness

Illustrations of the wonders of weightlessness by the artist Graham Booth. 
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This image is from the out-of-print children’s book Weight and Weightlessness by Franklyn M. Branley, published a few years after the lunar landing. The book’s illustrations of the wonders of weightlessness are by Graham Booth, and these gems were brought to our attention by Maria Popova at Brain Pickings. See more illustrations here. 

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