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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 ...

His family announced the news in a post on Facebook on Saturday. 'Fallen Astronaut' was an 8.5 centimetre aluminium sculpture made to represent both astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the race ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING — (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday after six months on China's space station. The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the ...

Jiuquan, China: A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country's space station blasted off from its remote launch site Thursday, the latest milestone in Beijing's race to become a ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan ...