Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck (right) presents Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, director of the National Air and Space Museum, with a replica of the "Fallen Astronaut" figure in 1972. . | Credit: ...

A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen himself. Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck died on Saturday (May 3) at his home in ...

Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck has died aged 99. For decades he had the honour of being the first and only person to have a work of art on the moon.

He is best known for Fallen Astronaut, an aluminium sculpture left on the moon in 1971 by the crew of the Apollo 15 spacecraft, in homage to their fallen colleagues. It was the first and ...

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His most famous piece is ‘Fallen Astronaut’, which Apollo 15 astronauts left on the moon in 1971 to honour their deceased colleagues. It remained the only artwork on the moon until February last year, ...

Paul Van Hoeydonck (8 October 1925 – 3 May 2025) was a Belgian sculptor and painter. Van Hoeydonck was best known for his 1971 sculpture Fallen Astronaut, which commemorated fallen astronauts and was ...

Cady Coleman (Retired), a former astronaut, on May 2 at 7 p.m. Coleman ... the club has distributed funds to families of fallen police officers and firefighter in excess of $1 million.